I was introduced to computers while visiting work with my dad. "Sit here, and type this into the computer. I'll be back in a few hours".
Here was a pdp-11, and the typing was an old star trek text adventure game (maybe 1976?) I was hooked. My father bought me an apple ][+, an extra 16K of memory, a Grappler+ card, and an Okidata printer. I sold my first app a year later (soccer camp contact app) But I tried to go to college for architecture. RISD. Couldn't afford it. Tried MIT. Couldn't afford it. Had my fallback school, UCONN, but no architecture. So I was a dual cs-ee major. But when a shy kid with authority issues meets girls, beer and hacky-sack away from home for the first time, and put him with a 5th year senior roommate with only 1 class and who was _the_ partier for miles around, and my 1.9 at the end of my first year was a miracle. So I got a job at Burger King, talked my way into a draftsman's job with no experience, turned that into an interior design job, and then talked my way into a programming job at a defense contractor. I have been meaningfully employed ever since. On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:14 AM, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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? > > > I got a Commodore Pet Series 2001 in 1977. I was 5, my dad bought it. I > wrote my first programs on it. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:259471 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
