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by glonq
1788 days ago
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I got into computers when my dad brought a Commodore Vic-20 home in 1982. Learned BASIC by typing in programs from Compute magazine. Then in high school they taught us Turbo Pascal on the PC. I had no intentions of going to college, but my parents prompted it. That was a very smart idea. I did a two-year degree/diploma with a co-op option. I finished with high grades and after graduation got a job with one of the places where I did co-op. The majority of my career was focused on what we'd now call "full stack" development. I started near the bottom (embedded & mobile) and moved into desktop, server, database, and cloud. I thought that I would we a programmer forever, but kind of burned out in my mid-30's. I got sick of framework fatigue -- having to re-learn half the stack every few years. So I switch to the dark side and became a development manager. Been doing that for almost 15 years now, but I still keep very close to development by participating in architecture and prototyping. |
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Are you me?!?! I bought a copy of QuickC after pascal got boring, msft's documentation that shipped in the box was excellent and I learned a ton from those books. QuickC's stdlib was really buggy though, felt like a hobby project compared to MSBasic.