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Many people post here their first experience with computers - nice 
but is that the same as "working as a developer"? I've touched my first computer maybe 15 years ago. still, I consider myself "working as a developer" for about 8 years, making a true living of it for merely 5.
Flirt harder, I'm a Coder
mlog || Agile Programming | doxygen
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I used my first computer 8 years ago, when I was 12. I started programming one year later. That was for my hobby, now I work since 4 years for different companies developing database systems.
Greetings.... 
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My 1st "job" as a developper was a small contract for a video casette rental store.
They wanted to track the tapes by categories and all that. It was on the commodore 64, in basic.
I got %%$#@*&!&^ for real, since the source code came with it. The client complained about a bug.
Not directly to me, not right away, but after "teaching himself programming" looking at my
beautiful source code. He got enlightenment and fixed the bug. He then claimed to have
re-written it from scratch of course.
I was very yong them, 12 years old or so.
This experience has tought me that before delivering something to a client, I ensure that the client is aware of the possibility of bugs and given a dozen way to get in touch with me. He is given to understand that it is not my intention to deliver bugs, but more often than not, bugs goes with the trade.
When I buy a car, there is such a thing as a warrenty. I have a Hunday Elentra and my transmission broke after 1 year. It was replaced for free, under warrenty. I just couldn't stop paying for the car and complain that it was a piece of junk and disposed of properly, in the garbage. Besides, unlike my prior experience when I was 12 years old, the company that finances my car made me sign a huge amount of paperworks protecting them from that sort of childish attidute.
Nowadays, I still don't force my clients to sign tons of paperwork, but I come to an understandment with them, verbally, and expect "no nonsense attitude".
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I first saw a computer when I was thirteen and learnt BASIC thinking I was learning the basics of computers.
Restarted my quest into computers when i was 17/18 missing biology and chemistry lessons in high school (I wouldn't recommend that for anyone else though).
After high school I started making software for small organizations and left college just after my first year was complete to start work as a developer. This has been about 4 years now.
Let's make things simpler than possible.
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I have a feeling most put in some 4-5 years before start making money as a "Developer", What's your take on it?
Personally, I did around five before I made money out of it, seems like entry level job doesn't exist no more.
Norman Fung
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Well, i did vote correctly (just over 3yrs getting paid for this), but still, it's fun to reminisce... 
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the work, which will become a new genre unto itself, will be called...
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I only like to notice to all people that are developers
somthing that maybe don't have notice it
Developers is one (of only two group) of people that thinking and acting using "real and proven working logic".
And this is make the life of a developer dificult because all other people don't really use "real logic".
Developers all days use real logic and always must be agree with the computer!
For me developers are special group of people in my daily life 
Vini
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I started working as developer in 1974 on both an IBM 360/40 programming in PL/I and a DEC PDP-11/20 programming in BASIC PLUS. I much preferred the teletype-like terminal on the 11/20 to punched cards on the 360/40.
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I was walking downtown montreal looking for vinyl LPs and second hand books then I found that
there was such a thing as a computer store!
Next I read a bunch of general books on the subject and spent a lot of time lurking in that
computer store and at some schools that had computers (not in my school at the time).
Not long after that, I got myself my 1st job, delivering groceries with a bicycle.
Not long after that, I could aford a Vic-20. My parents chipped in for a tv screen so that I
could use the computer separatly from the house tv.
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My first program was at a short summer school program at UC Berkeley. Punch cards, waiting for your "run".
I vaguely remember someone from the college showing us a program they wrote that created a tune you could receive on a transistor radio.
Tom
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I started out when i was 8 years old on the TI99 4/A. Learning Basic from the green book and saving my programs on tape. back around 1980.
I currently work as a developer within uhm HAL doing many languages and packages on many platforms so well...i think it had to be his way i think.
damn...where did i go wrong... 
http://www.de-leau.com
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Back in the day when computers were kits, I started with a Zenith (HeatKit Z80) we had 2 options for saving and retrieving data. Paper tape and a cassette tape player...wowser.
Got to move up to the touch-screen Fluke 1720A that was a great machine..mostly assembly language with BASIC.
From there Assembly language on Main Frames then to Cobol and Screen Interfaces that tied directly to the Database. Hmm, where is that stack of programming cards...
Then the greatest the Apple II series. (Will never forgive Steve Jobs on his mess up here) 'Started hardware design by this stage'
Now it is PC's and working in the .net environment. Learning from assembly to writing 'C' compilers to wondering how they do it now. Never stopped to 'catch' my breath. Always working and learning the latest in technology and computer systems.  ;P
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Saving programs on tape took days it seemed.
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I remember when the TI 99/4 came out, it was a very powerful machine (yeah right.) I started in 1975 on a 6502 with 256 bytes of memory, and then moved to an RCA 1802 (yes RCA actually made a CPU) with 2K of memory (I didn't know what to do with all of the space! Everything I wrote was in assembler on a piece of paper and hand assembled, I could not afford a tape interface or the assembler software.
Today I'm spending my time learning a new assember on yet another 8-bit microcontroller (will I never learn?) that has 1K of memory. Wait, I seem to be backing up... well at least it runs at 10MHz 
I'm working on a WinCE .Net project and this will be the IR remote control interface.
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You had a whole 1k? Damn! Mine only had .5 ... but I did have the thermal paper printer 
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COOL!!!
Me too!
It was so exciting. My father by the TI for me, initially I used it for games but after a few week I begin wrote my own games!
bye
- b0nu$ -
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I was 13 and my dad got one for me. Soon I was writing my own games as well.
The first games for the 99 were pretty sad.
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sfzz wrote:
The first games for the 99 were pretty sad.
Yeah... the first game i wrote was a Donkey Kong-style platform game, to fill the lack of one on the TI. Had a level editor and all... gfx kinda sucked though.
Oh, Parsec and Tombstone City rocked... 
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the work, which will become a new genre unto itself, will be called...
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What a frightening survey. In a burst of honesty and a pad of paper I discovered I wrote my first program 36 years ago. Fortran it was.
I'm currently on my 35th company. Time to call it a day I think.
ExpatEgghead
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Hmm, that's a long time in the business
I started 7 years ago with a program in GWBASIC:
10 CLS<br />
20 PRINT "Hello World!"<br />
30 END
hehe, stupid program. I now work for the 3th company.
Greetings....
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Hi,
Anyone can detail me about the realtime usage of Reflection?
where can I get realtime Reflection samples too ?
Thanks
 DHARMA.R
DHARMA.R
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