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I am happy to be a new member of these great looking forums

Welcome to Dev Shed

Al says hi back.

Welcome to Dev Shed, we're usually always sarcastic

Hello from Chicagoland.

I've been programming computers for 25 years. I started on an Apple with BASIC and Machine Code my first year high school. I took all the programming classes my high school had to offer. I owned the Atari's 400, 800 and the 520 ST where I wrote cheesy games in Assembly.

After high school I got a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics Engineering at ITT Technical Institute. Then I got a job consulting in mathematics for a Paradox database programmer. That's when I started my 17 year career programming computers starting in Qbasic, C and databases on the IBM (286) under DOS. Shortly after that I loaded Windows 3.0 and started working with VB and C++ doing OOP.

I've been freelancing for the past 10 years. I've done most of my projects using C/C++, VB, Access and SQL in Windows. But I also wrote an entire database in C on UNIX. I've done a few small projects in .NET, and I've created a few websites for myself and friends. However being a veteran programmer, I still get mostly legacy projects. Now I want to get more involved with .NET and Web Development.

Well that's my story in a nutshell. I'm glad to be here, and look forward to meeting fellow programmers.

Welcome to the forum. I am a fellow veteran programmer but not doing it much these days. Started before the PC was around when you had to make your own machine out of purelly TTL and program it byte by byte using toggle switches and progresssed onto bigger and better machines as technology developed.

Hope to see you around a little and if you have any spare CPU cycles running around that you would like to donate we can also use you in our DevFolding team.

It would have been neat to learn at the time you did. Even though I started later, on an Apple (actually a friend's "Trash 80" in grade school), I feel lucky I got to learn about programming the CPU directly using Machine Code. I think that helped me a great deal in learning the higher level languages. In college we learned about the electronics of the Microprocessor (Z80, 68000) which also helped a great deal.


That sounds interesting. I'll check it out.

All good learning, especially if you want to get into embedded controllers, custom designs or real time apps.

*pats everyone on the ****

Hi,

My name is Tyler. And below (sticking to the format, kinda) are my vital stats:

25 years old
Bachelors degree in Management Information Systems, thinking hard about a masters
14 'years in the industry' :
--7 years unofficial(first computer to first day in college)
--4 years of college
----AAS Network Support
----BS MIS
--3 years of resume type experience
----PC Tech
----Sr Technical Analyst
Married 0 years
Zero children

Welcome to Dev Shed. An interesting way to present numbers, for work and personal life numbers.

Well, the original poster had a similar format, so I figured I'd use that. I'm lazy...

So..... does married 0 years imply married = 0 or married <1 year?

Hope you enjoy the forums.