Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Wed 28th Jul 2004 17:23 UTC
Most of us that work in the IT industry have been around for a long time. We started out in our parents basement writing code in some BASIC environment, ussually Commodore BASIC or QBASIC. Do you remember how thrilling it was? Your first program and it was something extremely basic but the point was it worked. Some of us got hooked right away and kept trying to solve problems and added more and more pushing the capabilities of whatever language we used. As we got older the environments progressed and the programming tools progressed and got more complicated.
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I started my hobby coding back in about 1984 or so with my Commodore Vic-20, moved up to a Commodore 64 after a lightning storm killed the Vic.
Back then when you bought the computer it came with BASIC built in and the manual that came with it taught you how to code. There were also many magazines out at the time that contained code you could type in. I believe the mag I read was Family Computing, had plenty of Commodore programs in it.
Since then I've moved on to PASCAL, C, C++, RPG and FORTRAN while getting my engineering degree. Then I moved on to Assembler and COBOL. From there I went to VB, then to Java, now I'm full time Java/.NET. But it all started with the 8K RAM Vic-20.