What is your WHY in CODING?
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1978 for me. I took up the trade because I wasn't required to talk to people that annoy me.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013Ditto, except I found out that stupid has no boundaries or limitations...
Don't let your mind wander too far. It's too small to be let out alone.
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Did you buy the huge 32K Memory Expansion and dabble in assembly language with it? I did. First 16-bit CPU, baby!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I had indeed the 32K memory expansion, but I did not code in assembly language; not that I did not want to, I remember having searched for books on the subject; but at that time, I did not get any, or at least any I could understand easily. There must have been some good materials on the subject back then, but not in my native language, unfortunately. I was a teenager, and at that time the only English words I could speak were those of the songs I was listening to; something like: "Won't you take me to... Funkytown!". I could sing them, but not understand.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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My first lines of codes were written in 1983 or 1984; at that time I had a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer, and the language was (extended) BASIC. Why? Because coding is just awesome :)
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
phil.o wrote:
TI-99/4A
Me too! A pricing war had made them affordable so my brothers and I got one for Christmas in either '82 or '83. My brothers were interested in the games but I realized that there was much more to it than that and soon had it doing my algebra homework, playing music with flashing colors...what fun! :) Luckily, we had an extra TV for the basement! :)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
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phil.o wrote:
TI-99/4A
Me too! A pricing war had made them affordable so my brothers and I got one for Christmas in either '82 or '83. My brothers were interested in the games but I realized that there was much more to it than that and soon had it doing my algebra homework, playing music with flashing colors...what fun! :) Luckily, we had an extra TV for the basement! :)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
When: Spring 1980 Why: Because it was interesting (it became less interesting in college later that year because they used [time shared] mainframes and mainframes bored me and still do.) I continued doing it because it's one thing I'm very good at and which pays the bills. One could argue that it's the only thing I'm very good at.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
with no heavy lifting
Unless you had one of those "boat anchor" portable computers. :)
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Hah! In those days you needed a crane to change the disk! :laugh:
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
Late 80s on a commodore64. I was sick of repeatedly estimating the number of tiles on a roof, and getting it wrong. The application reduced my error rate from about 20% to 5% and those were transposition errors because I had to write up the order manually.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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The first computer I laid my hands on was a Sinclair ZX81 (black and white), I was fascinated and got hooked on Basic programming. Did not think I would be doing this as a profession later on in life, evolved from Basic to VB, VB.NET and finally C#.
I went the same path but started with a commodore 64 and went via SuperBase before I got into VB.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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OriginalGriff wrote:
with no heavy lifting
Unless you had one of those "boat anchor" portable computers. :)
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
I learned in 1967, because I wanted to learn about those newfangled compputer machines. I started getting paid to program in 1972 when I took a job to pay for my university studies.I tutored and taught FORTRAN for several years, then worked for a research commision writing FORTRAN and Algol programs. I started a software business in 1990 after working as an engineer for 15 years.
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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1978 for me. I took up the trade because I wasn't required to talk to people that annoy me.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013But you get to cuss at compilers and machines because they do what you instruct rather than what you want!And shooting com[puteers isn't illegal.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
Money.
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I went the same path but started with a commodore 64 and went via SuperBase before I got into VB.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
SuperBase rings a bell with me, I had that on my Atari 1040ST but never did anything useful with it. Later on I thought DbaseIII+ was more interesting because of job opportunities, and to my amazement I got a job as a database programmer pretty quick !
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
Because I needed a job and there was good money to be made in IT :laugh: I actually learned on the job (and in my spare time after I got my first job). I liked it, it kind of stuck, and I've been doing it happily ever after ;)
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
The year was 1992. It was DOS on a IBM386. My dad was a programmer back then, so I learned a few nifty things using his class notes...I ended up studying it in college after my hopes to pursue a career in aviation got crushed. But hey, 10 years into doing this for a living, no regrets! WHY? Because this world needs more people doing good things to make a difference. :cool:
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
It was year 1999. There was huge incentive before Y2K and market was prospering and shedding money who could code HTML. But to make my fundamentals strong I started with C language and fell in love with it. I then wrote code in C, C#, Java, JavaScript, Web languages and frameworks, windows app development and Silverlight, etc.
// ♫ 99 little bugs in the code, // 99 bugs in the code // We fix a bug, compile it again // 101 little bugs in the code ♫
Tell your manager, while you code: "good, cheap or fast: pick two. "
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
1982. I was 10y old. In primary school. My neighbor got a British made ZX Spectrum microcomputer. I consider the day he brought it to my place the luckiest in my life. That night, knowing only five BASIC commands - LET, INPUT, PRINT, GOTO (yes!), and IF - I wrote my first code. On paper, using graphite pencil, of course. And I knew this was what I wanted to do. Why? Were you ever asked by your girlfriend or your wife (or both?) why you love her ( of course you were -- it's a standard let's have a fight trap ) Not an easy question to answer. I suppose it is the creation of new, the individual self- dependency, the freedom to do whatever you want and the responsibility to fix bugs, the adolescent loneliness, the instant gratification of software - simply a good match to our characters. Later in life I met a lot of people who never found themselves. Never knew what they want to do in life. It lead to realization of how lucky I was. Life gives you many boons and bones. But it's all easier if you have passion for your work. We, who do, are the lucky ones. We are the privileged few. :laugh: :java:
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
Back in 1976 I took a FORTRAN course at Georgia Tech. The first time I saw that I could make a machine do THAT the lid was off. I was hooked on it and still am.
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