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How did you get involved in programming?

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  • M Mark_Wallace

    You inspired me to dig out one of my old slide rules. ... And I can't remember how to use the damned thing!

    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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    Mike Hankey
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    I kept my first slide rule for many years but never did learn how to use it.

    New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta
    I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!

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    • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

      I kept my first slide rule for many years but never did learn how to use it.

      New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta
      I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!

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      I know that if I start googling, I'll lose the whole day to it, so it's going back in the box.

      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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      • M Mark_Wallace

        I know that if I start googling, I'll lose the whole day to it, so it's going back in the box.

        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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        Mike Hankey
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        It's so easy to get distracted...smart move.

        New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta
        I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!

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        • M Member KL

          How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?

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          Daniel Pfeffer
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          In 1974, my father gave an evening course in FORTRAN for high-school students at the local University. Note that this was still the age of punched cards and batch processing. He took me along a few evenings, and I wrote my first program. It set a precedent by having a bug in it. :laugh:

          If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

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          • M Mark_Wallace

            You inspired me to dig out one of my old slide rules. ... And I can't remember how to use the damned thing!

            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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            Daniel Pfeffer
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            I still remember how to use one, but other than demonstrations for my children, I haven't used one in decades. :laugh: Ah, for the wonderful good old days, when all we had were stone knives and bear skins...

            If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

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            • M Member KL

              How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?

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              Besinger
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              Took a Fortran class in high school, joined the Air Force where they taught me COBOL and let me get a Computer and Information Science degree, and the rest is history.

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              • M Mark_Wallace

                You inspired me to dig out one of my old slide rules. ... And I can't remember how to use the damned thing!

                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                Besinger
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                I have a slide rule from my late father, along with a circular slide rule and a slide rule tie clasp (that actually works if you can read it).

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                • B Besinger

                  I have a slide rule from my late father, along with a circular slide rule and a slide rule tie clasp (that actually works if you can read it).

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                  Mark_Wallace
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                  Besinger wrote:

                  a slide rule tie clasp (that actually works if you can read it).

                  WANT!!!

                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                  • M Mark_Wallace

                    Besinger wrote:

                    a slide rule tie clasp (that actually works if you can read it).

                    WANT!!!

                    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                    Besinger
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                    Too much sentimental value, I used in in my Trig class in high school, you know, before they came out with scientific calculators. Yes, I'm that old. Some auction sites have them fairly cheep.

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                    • S Slacker007

                      Jeremy Falcon wrote:

                      I did it for the nookie.

                      So you can take that cookie

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                      Jeremy Falcon
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                      Ain't no rest for the wicked.

                      Jeremy Falcon

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                      • L Lost User

                        It's called irony: Google[^]

                        Peter Wasser "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

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                        Jeremy Falcon
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                        :thumbsup:

                        Jeremy Falcon

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