circa 1984 i was in a private school here in salisbury, and we got a major donation to the math/computer department (although the computer part never existed before that at our school) and they gave us 10 or so TRaSh-80's and we began by learning DOS, how to use an A drive with 5.5 inch FLOPPY disks, and how to write a program that would
10 printscrn "you are in a dark hallway, there is a switch on the wall" 20 go to 10 or whatever, you get the point... then, from that moment on my mother said she couldnt get my hands off of a computer, and that any time one of them came around, i was on it... no matter what... now, mind you, out of 4 siblings, i was the only one who took so hard to it, none of my others can do much more than run word and do some net stuff... anyway, i gave computers up for punane around the age of 15 or 16 and didnt pick anything back up REALLY hardcore until like 21 when momma said... well, i think you should try this... its called html, and we make "Pages" out of it, and you can use this "LView Pro" to make pictures and scan pictures into it, and save them, and put them on the "internet" and you view them through "netscape .99"... well, as they say, from that moment on the rest is history, and here i am ... making ridiculous money, doing what i love... i dont work, i enjoy computers and then i get to play golf when im not! :) On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't have a choice. Started school as a biz major and they literally > forced me to take a Computers 101 course. I begged and pleaded to be let out > of the class and they told me I had to take it or switch to an arts major. > > My intro to computers went even worse than I expected. My lab partner knew a > little about computers so I coasted thru the first semester failing > miserably. After Xmas my lab partner found himself a girlfriend in the same > class and I got paired with a guy who was doing worse than I was. Early in > term 2 the prof started Qbasic programming and I managed to pull my mark > from a charitable F to a B-. Not bad considering how badly I was doing. The > next year I switched my major to Biz Info Systems, a mix of the Biz and Comp > Sci degrees. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: G Money [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2008 10:15 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Why did you get into computers? (was: churvii: a study in > brainiacs) > > I spun this off into a new thread because it got me thinking........why did > everyone here get into programming? Was it by choice? Did it just happen > that way? Did you major in CS in college? Was it to make money? > > For me personally, I wanted a job that had 3 primary characteristics: > 1) Made good money > 2) Would be in demand for the foreseeable future and > 3) Would allow me to work with minimal contact with other people > > I'm not a misanthrope, but I do really enjoy just shrinking into my own > world sometimes and pounding out code without having to interact with a > bunch of people to get stuff done. > > So.......how did everyone else get into this business? > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Adam Churvis < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Only one correction: David is the one who is off the charts. > > > > Respectfully, > > > > Adam Phillip Churvis > > President > > Productivity Enhancement > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:09 PM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: churvii: a study in brainiacs > > > > > > so, david is highly intelligent, adam, well, you are off the charts... > > > > > > id like to know... how is your office setup? > > > > > > i see a bunch of churvii in one room, laughing at each other > > > coding, responding to lists, laughing at each others posts, etc... > > > > > > am i way off? > > > > > > -- > > > 'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty > > > seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner' > > > > > > robert deniro - heat (1995) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259468 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
