Blog Post: My Background.
I started programming on a VIC 20 in 1980 or so, after I left the U.S. Army.
For several years, I moved on from VIC, to C64 then to Atari 800XL.
I had several programs published in BYTE or Compute! or Computes! Gazette magazines in my first 2 years of programming. Mainly because I used Machine Language well. (Thanks, Butterfield!)
I was self taught at those times.
An acquaintance of a friend heard about my programming and encouraged me to take a few classes at the local community college. So in the CC I learned IBM ASM.
I took all the programming classes they had, and I aced them. COBOL, ASM, BASIC, PASCAL, DELPHI you name it.
I once took 5 programming classes in 1 semester. Some called me crazy. I aced all 5 classes that semester.
After college my first job was for Westinghouse Company fixing COBOL programs. I did that for about a year.
After Westinghouse, I moved from programming job to job as I saw fit.
After 15 years of that, I started taking jobs as Lead Programmer.
After 5 years of that I started taking jobs as Director of Programming (or IT).
35 years later, I still enjoy programming and solving difficult coding problems.
So if anyone has the idea I am some Johnny-Come-Lately, you'd be wrong.
If I shrug off you're advice, it's more because
I want to CODE it instead of using someone else's code, not to SLIGHT anyone.
I'm old, and I'm gruff, blunt and to the point. That is not going to change. I will never be Politically Correct.
I also have a low tolerance for stupid.
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