> Tavish Armstrong has a great document where he describes
> how and when he learned the programming skills he has. I
> like this idea because I've found that the paths that
> people take to get into programming are much more varied
> than stereotypes give credit for, and I think it's useful
> to see that there are many possible paths into programming.
Okay. Yes that's useful. Let's see what path you took...
> Luckily, the internet was relatively young [...]
There ya go. Look no further!
Mine own story is a little different... The author had local peers, I did not. The author made no mention of an old hand-me-down c64 nor Tandy 1000's in his kindergarten classroom...
But, getting online in the mid-nineties? Check. That's huge.
TCP/IP was explained to me by some random gamer in a chatroom, long before I ever thought to "google" it.
(Speaking of paths... Lycos --> Altavista --> Still Altavista for a long time as I resisted the change to Google --> Google --> DDG)
Mine own story is a little different... The author had local peers, I did not. The author made no mention of an old hand-me-down c64 nor Tandy 1000's in his kindergarten classroom...
But, getting online in the mid-nineties? Check. That's huge.
TCP/IP was explained to me by some random gamer in a chatroom, long before I ever thought to "google" it.
(Speaking of paths... Lycos --> Altavista --> Still Altavista for a long time as I resisted the change to Google --> Google --> DDG)