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Tavish’s excessively long programmer biography
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#22Why is this interesting?
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I don't know about that, if a bunch of people are excited about something and I'm just not seeing the 'hook', then I'd want to be clued in so I can be excited too. Or, just be made aware "yep, that's what they were excited about, it just doesn't do it for me", which is okay, too.
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#23What's the point actually? I mean, I admire the diligence required to write it all down but how should this change my outlook on programming? The general idea is 'in order to be a good programmer, keep doing computer stuff'. Do we need extensive biographies full of details to learn this?
The point of writing this bio probably had comparable inspiration to your own when deciding if you should make this comment.
You wanted to make the comment and thought other people might want to read it. Do we gain anything from your comment? No. Do we gain anything from the bio? Maybe not. Did that stop any of us from pushing text out onto the internet?
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#24Webmonkey was such a fantastic project, they really influenced my life with those tutorials. As I've learned more about html/css/javascript it motivated me to move forever from Delphi/C++ into the web development world. If any of them ever happens to read this comment, a huge THANK YOU!
I learned all my initial programming from tutorial sites. Some other ones, if anyone remembers: sitepoint forums, neverside, spoono, tutorial9, phpforums.... And of course IRC channels. I had so much fun in those, always competing with the other kids who were 12-14 years old (there was always someone smarter than I was).
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#25I started programming before the author was born.
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#26I started programming before the author was born.
Yeah me too. If his bio is "excessively long", I dread to think how mine would turn out or have to be titled.
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#27I started programming before the author was born.
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#28I'm assuming he mentioned this somewhere, but Tavish was the editor of Architecture of Open Source Applications while was still an undergrad (if I recall). http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
I worked with him as a co-editor until I had to drop out because of other commitments. Super good dude.
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#29I wrote up something similar a few months ago called "Everything I Have Ever Programmed": https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everything-i-have-ever-progra... I recommend taking a bit of time to do a similar write-up, it comes easily and you'll probably be surprised by the sheer amount of stuff you've worked on, and might see some interesting patterns.
This would be a good exercise but my memory is so faulty that I'm not sure how much of the sub projects I would recall.
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#30When I read things like this, I end up feeling a lot of sympathy for kids who are trying to learn programming and "computers" nowadays. I count myself as very fortunate that I started learning programming back in the 80's when not much was expected out of computers, since they were so (relatively) underpowered. I feel like I was able to learn programming concepts at a much more leisurely pace than you're expected to learn nowadays. My first real computer was a commodore 64 - completely self contained, no internet, no GUI, and something you could really understand from beginning to end after a few months of study. When I started learning more complex architectures and things like virtual memory and pointers, I had a solid base to fall back on that I don't think this younger generation is allowed.