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Chris Maunder wrote: Best advice I've heard and been given is:
Now I'm curious -- what was your first foray into programming? Language? Platform? Motivation to learn to code?
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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It was odd, really, though maybe a familiar story.
I had a friend who could program BASIC and I thought that was pretty cool. In High school all we had were about 3 BBC computers that we used to muck around with, but in College (that's year 11 in Canberra where I grew up) they had actual XTs so I took a course in Pascal. I sucked pretty badly the first year - it didn't gel - but over the holidays I bought a book, read it a couple of times, and suddenly it clicked an I was lost. I ended up with 103% for my final course score and went on to do summer jobs coding for food.
My main motivation after the initial hit was in my physics degree. I needed (OK, wanted) to be able to graph the results of our lab work and there wasn't anything available to do what I needed so I spent roughly 98% of my lab time perfecting my code and making it awesome and the rest doing actual science-y stuff.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: ...and the rest doing actual science-y stuff.
Mud cake making is not science-y stuff.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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PhD's have been earned on less.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Opening hours of course!!!
Clicking the Google-Doodle of today, the 'Top stories' are opening hours of different shops... And I was hoping for some relief after six months of end-of-the-year-sale adds...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Don't worry, the New Year, Easter special, Spring event, Summer markdown, Autumn blowout, Back to School double discount, and Hallowe'en special sales, will soon be announced.
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You forgot Valentines, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Leprechaun's Day, Old Uncle Tom Cobley's Day, ...
I'm sure most of these are made up by Hallmark... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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you forgot Chinese New Year (middle of Feb this year.)
Yang Male Earth Dog / aka Brown Earth Dog.
If you want a dog, get one now before the price goes up, or if you want to get rid of a dog, do it now before it's bad luck.
For the real feast Bacon Pig is up in '19.
I like cats... I just can't finish a whole one by myself.
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Most important is getting to the Redemption Center early, before the line forms, so you can redeem your tabloid reality fake-news stamps for virtual Happy Meals.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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My Dad lost the fight with stomach cancer a few days ago. I was able to make the 12 hour drive straight to the hospital and stayed with him for his last day during which he was pumped full of morphine and semi-conscious. He passed peacefully with my Mom and two brothers at his side. The funeral service and burial were yesterday.  At last, the pain and misery he has endured for most of the last two years is over.
Tomorrow, I'll head back home for a few days off before getting back to work.
If your parent(s) are still around, give them a call and tell them you love them. If not, take just a minute to pause and remember and honor them.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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F*** cancer, sincerely.
Lost my mom a five years ago and my father in-law this year. I believe I can relate.
I wish you and your family a better 2018.
Jörgen
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yes, indeed. My dad was taken into hospital in the evening of 31 Dec 1999… so we spent the turn of the millennium at his bedside, where the nurses brought us cheap fizzy wine in plastic cups at midnight…. He survived that stay, but eventually succumbed much like yours a few months later. They say, no matter how old you are, you never really grow up until your parents are gone, and there’s a certain truth to that.
Good luck, and may next year be better.
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My deepest condolences.
I also lost my dad this year.
/ravi
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My condolences!
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Sorry to hear.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Condolence to you and your family.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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My condolences for your loss ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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My condolences to you and your family
73
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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Condolences. Lost my dad in 1987 to renal cancer. Hardest part was I missed him passing by minutes... sigh. Now that I'm a grandad and most of my children are 18+, I have so many questions for him. He's so much smarter now...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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