On 2010-11-04 13:14 , Bruce Walker wrote:
I've always been a really short-attention-span kind of guy and the batch Fortran jobs got old *really* fast. If my college hadn't installed Teletypes connecting to a timeshare service, I probably would have changed careers.
my first programming was on a calculator with 100 steps and a 10-digit numeric display, but then i was fortunate to have fairly advanced equipment when i got to college (dozens of VT-100 terminals on a DEC-20 and a PDP-11/45), and only later had to submit batch jobs on an IBM 360 (both by card deck and interactively); but it was learning assembler and bending my head around things like Prolog that i feel were a real foundation; tangentially, my computer education also gave me some grounding in information theory, which is incredibly helpful for photography (even for film photography to some extent)
I guess that's why digital photography works for me where film never did. And I can't stand gardening either. Plants are just way too too slow and non-interactive for me. Don't get me wrong, I love shootin' 'em when I happen across them. :)
wow, i _love_ gardening; while i'm generally impatient, gardening is perhaps the most rewarding thing i do; maybe it's because i have hundreds of plants and something's always happening ... i can never keep up with it
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