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I have a feeling most put in some 4-5 years before start making money as a "Developer", What's your take on it?
Personally, I did around five before I made money out of it, seems like entry level job doesn't exist no more.
Norman Fung
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Well, i did vote correctly (just over 3yrs getting paid for this), but still, it's fun to reminisce...
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the work, which will become a new genre unto itself, will be called...
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I only like to notice to all people that are developers
somthing that maybe don't have notice it
Developers is one (of only two group) of people that thinking and acting using "real and proven working logic".
And this is make the life of a developer dificult because all other people don't really use "real logic".
Developers all days use real logic and always must be agree with the computer!
For me developers are special group of people in my daily life
Vini
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I started working as developer in 1974 on both an IBM 360/40 programming in PL/I and a DEC PDP-11/20 programming in BASIC PLUS. I much preferred the teletype-like terminal on the 11/20 to punched cards on the 360/40.
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I was walking downtown montreal looking for vinyl LPs and second hand books then I found that
there was such a thing as a computer store!
Next I read a bunch of general books on the subject and spent a lot of time lurking in that
computer store and at some schools that had computers (not in my school at the time).
Not long after that, I got myself my 1st job, delivering groceries with a bicycle.
Not long after that, I could aford a Vic-20. My parents chipped in for a tv screen so that I
could use the computer separatly from the house tv.
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My first program was at a short summer school program at UC Berkeley. Punch cards, waiting for your "run".
I vaguely remember someone from the college showing us a program they wrote that created a tune you could receive on a transistor radio.
Tom
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I started out when i was 8 years old on the TI99 4/A. Learning Basic from the green book and saving my programs on tape. back around 1980.
I currently work as a developer within uhm HAL doing many languages and packages on many platforms so well...i think it had to be his way i think.
damn...where did i go wrong...
http://www.de-leau.com
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Back in the day when computers were kits, I started with a Zenith (HeatKit Z80) we had 2 options for saving and retrieving data. Paper tape and a cassette tape player...wowser.
Got to move up to the touch-screen Fluke 1720A that was a great machine..mostly assembly language with BASIC.
From there Assembly language on Main Frames then to Cobol and Screen Interfaces that tied directly to the Database. Hmm, where is that stack of programming cards...
Then the greatest the Apple II series. (Will never forgive Steve Jobs on his mess up here) 'Started hardware design by this stage'
Now it is PC's and working in the .net environment. Learning from assembly to writing 'C' compilers to wondering how they do it now. Never stopped to 'catch' my breath. Always working and learning the latest in technology and computer systems. ;P
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Saving programs on tape took days it seemed.
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I remember when the TI 99/4 came out, it was a very powerful machine (yeah right.) I started in 1975 on a 6502 with 256 bytes of memory, and then moved to an RCA 1802 (yes RCA actually made a CPU) with 2K of memory (I didn't know what to do with all of the space! Everything I wrote was in assembler on a piece of paper and hand assembled, I could not afford a tape interface or the assembler software.
Today I'm spending my time learning a new assember on yet another 8-bit microcontroller (will I never learn?) that has 1K of memory. Wait, I seem to be backing up... well at least it runs at 10MHz
I'm working on a WinCE .Net project and this will be the IR remote control interface.
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You had a whole 1k? Damn! Mine only had .5 ... but I did have the thermal paper printer
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COOL!!!
Me too!
It was so exciting. My father by the TI for me, initially I used it for games but after a few week I begin wrote my own games!
bye
- b0nu$ -
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I was 13 and my dad got one for me. Soon I was writing my own games as well.
The first games for the 99 were pretty sad.
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sfzz wrote:
The first games for the 99 were pretty sad.
Yeah... the first game i wrote was a Donkey Kong-style platform game, to fill the lack of one on the TI. Had a level editor and all... gfx kinda sucked though.
Oh, Parsec and Tombstone City rocked...
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the work, which will become a new genre unto itself, will be called...
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What a frightening survey. In a burst of honesty and a pad of paper I discovered I wrote my first program 36 years ago. Fortran it was.
I'm currently on my 35th company. Time to call it a day I think.
ExpatEgghead
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Hmm, that's a long time in the business
I started 7 years ago with a program in GWBASIC:
10 CLS<br />
20 PRINT "Hello World!"<br />
30 END
hehe, stupid program. I now work for the 3th company.
Greetings....
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Hi,
Anyone can detail me about the realtime usage of Reflection?
where can I get realtime Reflection samples too ?
Thanks
DHARMA.R
DHARMA.R
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Probably in the evening he's going to slice up some kittens with a chainsaw, to relive his stress.
Flirt harder, I'm a Coder
mlog || Agile Programming | doxygen
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I mean Built as in with a Soldering Iron. It was SWTPC (pre Altair) Class based on the Motorola 6800 Chip set; I liked it better than the Intel 8080. I had to type in the OS by hand from an instruction sheet and after I got it all in, I found out that the Tape recorder I was interfacing with wasn’t working, so I had to keep it powered up for two weeks as I waited for a replacement. I think I still had it after I retired from the Air Force in 1999; I was an Electronic Engineer and Computer Programmer on the E/F-111 till 1993; then I transferred over to Helicopter Air Rescue and Special Operations and I was Medically Retired with Gulf War Syndrome in 1999. I’ve seen a lot of changes over this time period, languages, computers and OS’s come and go, electronics getting smaller, CPU’s getting faster, and me getting older.
Lessons learned from 911:
1. United We Stand.
2. United’s We Fall.
Gulf War Syndrome survivors never have a good day. http://www.vetshelpcenter.com/
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...you typed in your OS by ...hand ... ??? wow ... LOL !!!!
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