Was a kid in the 70's, parents bought a 'Pong' game that hooked up to the TV. I played games on Atari, Intellivision, later Colecovision(ADAM), and of course the coin-operated racket. When I was about 11, a military friend of the family was leaving the country for a few months and left his TRS-80 with me to dink around with. I would usually play games on it, but I also got the crazy idea that I could write my own games. I did a bit of text-based role playing games, but then I had to return the computer.
I learned BASIC on the ADAM computer (what a dog!) which transferred pretty easily to Apple BASIC. My one and only computer class was in my senior year of HS. While other people's Happy Halloween projects showed an orange pumpkin and some text, mine used some fractal code I found in a geek-magazine. My first 'real' application was a dating compatibility program that most of my senior class participated in...and paid to see their personalized results. It was like a 1988 vintage of match.com. I didn't get serious about application development until after college (religion major) when a grad school (religion again) professor got me interested in the Internet. Taught myself HTML, later Perl and then ColdFusion. Yay!! Maybe my schooling is in religion, but computers were my first big interest. I don't say 'first love' because computers cannot return love, only mischief and guile. :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:259481 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
