your first programming gig
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
In 1974 when I first got out of the army, I convinced the management at a huge manufacturing plant that I could learn the assembly language on a Quantel minicomputer, with NO documentation. I was given four dollars an hour, but not too bad then, especially for someone with no experience and little education. But, it was horrible for programming. Even then, programmers generally started at $15-25 hour. I was having an extremely difficult time until one day I discovered for some reason, the stack worked backwards. Then everything became crystal clear and I ended up working there for two years, never getting a raise. I was able to go to school full time during the day and work full time at night. I got a good invoicing and a very rudimentary inventory program done. I even started writing an RPG compiler. Imagine having to write your own data entry, database and reporting programs in ASM!
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
1978 or 79; I was a college intern at Ford. Translating programs from Basic to FORTRAN for HP systems, which used mylar tape to boot strap! Simple FORTRAN which only had IF statements with goto's for the conditionals, I think: IF () , <= zero>, (But its been a long time ago!) Commuted from college a few times on Amtrak to work on occasional weekends. After that, worked on a FORTRAN compiler putting in FORTRAN 77 features... Fair wage for a kid at the time. Paid for my Sears stereo with 8 track player... ;P
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Were you fairly compensated at your first programming job? Wwhat year was it?
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
First useful program supplied to other was an IBM 7040 assembly language implementation of the random number function RANDU. It was written in 196X (X > 4). I gave it away to engineering students. It greatly sped up an assignment which was some sort of simulation. They had been using the FORTRAN equivalent library function which was written in FORTRAN and not optimized (FORTRAN compilers of that era didn't do optimization. JFW