I always stress that I will “keep coding until someone pries my cold dead fingers from the keyboard.” This may sound a bit morbid, but gets the point across clearly. I’m now 51 years old, and after 40 years of coding in 20+ different programming languages, I am happy to say that I am still hooked.įor the past twenty years, I have been telling stories about my career and love of programming to kids between the ages of 15 and 100. This is when I discovered the Joy of Programming. I was soon experimenting with the graphics programming capability of the computer as well. I spent hours reading the manuals that came with the computer, and wrote my first program which calculated weekly pay with overtime. I still regret having sold this wonderful piece of computing history when I was in college. The Epson HX-20 is regarded by some as the world’s first laptop computer. I first started teaching myself BASIC on an Epson HX-20. I am from a fortunate generation, which was the first to have access to personal computers in their homes. I started coding in BASIC when I was 11 years old. My XO Laptop running eToys signed by Alan Kay on Febru“The future will be better” My programming story begins
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