Paul;
There are a lot more of us around than the youngsters like to acknowledge
.
My first .... and only programming course was at Texas A&M University, a
fortran course where we had to do our programs on Punch Cards.... everything
else is self taught. I got my Degrees in Nuclear Engineering and Health
Physics instead of programming. From that to Oracle Database
Administration in more than one not-so-easy lesson.... Go figure.
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I just want to thank everyone whose stories indicate that they are at least
middle-aged--for a while (especially at my last job where the average age
was about 25), I'd been feeling as though I was the last over-40 tech-head
left on the East Coast.
Now, as long as I'm posting, my "how-I-got-started" story:
I majored in liberal arts and worked as a real-estate property manager for
about 5 years. Encouraged by programmer friends, I took some classes, in
Fortran, Intro. to Computer Logic, and DG MV/8000 assembly language. My
first job, in 1981, was as an assembly language programmer, but not for the
MV/8000; rather, writing firmware for the Intel 8085. I couldn't believe
how primitive it seemed after programming for the then-state-of-the-art
MV/8000. The experience, though, of working from hardware schematics and
Intel data books was invaluable. You really know how a computer works when
you've learned about asserting ALE (address latch enable) and strobing the
address bus!
Paul Baumgartel
MortgageSight Holdings, LLC
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