Programming has been my hobby since I
was in elementary school. I started out watching my friends who were writing programs by
pecking at the keyboard of the 386 machines at school. This is back in the
days of DOS, where most programs were still being written in text mode and graphics were
primative. (In retrospect, graphics in DOS was really awesome. The ability to directly
manipulate the graphics adapter is not permitted by modern operating systems.)
I haven't had much formal education in computer programming except for a semester here and few
quarters here, but it has been an activity that I've enjoyed for a long time. Most of my
programming knowledge has been self-taught, but I really think I've benefitted from the few
classes I've taken.
I'll be posting some of the programs I've worked on over the years, along with some thoughts that come up.