Thanks John…!
So… from Keyvan Nayyari and Janko to Mads Kristensen and then John… now to me comes a challenge to tell how I got into programming…
How old were you when you started programming?
I can’t seem to remember the absolute “first time” I started… it must have been with like that frog-line game… what the heck was it called…?! where you told it to move a number of spaces and make patterns etc… I do remember the first time that I touched HTML, that was around age 11 or 12 I think.
How did you get started in programming?
Same as John actually… text-based adventures! But how I really got into it was when I began to see the possibility of making some cool green with it. That was when Macromedia Flash hit the scene and then it was all over.
What was your first language?
BASIC. I think. I had to look at this for a while. It’s a cool timeline of programming languages.
What was the first real program you wrote?
Simple math calculator I think. It was the uber 1337.
What languages have you used since?
ASP, PHP, ActionScript, X/HTML, JavaScript, CSS, .NET, mySQL, SQL, PERL, Java, RUBY…
What was your first professional programming gig?
First corporate america stint was with a Johnson and Johnson company back in 1997… I had been web developing for a while before then, but this was a HUGE gig… got me on the map I suppose… and introduced me to the cube life (which I hate).
If you knew then what you know now, would you have started programming?
Yes. But, I probably would have started sooner. Also, I would have really tried to master a few of them instead of being a jack of all trades… well… actually… maybe I take that back.
What is the one thing you would tell new developers?
If you can find a correlation between the development/coding world and “real life” you’ll be a much happier person…
So Now… to Who?
Anyone willing to sit down and write something out…! Whoo… that took me a little bit (even though I didn’t write that much…)
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Thu, Jul 17, 2008
Technology