My very first experience coding was when I was 17 in a electronic technical course, with an HP 11c calculator, the scientific version of the eternal 12c, still in the market today.
Then, I was fascinated with the possibility of solving those complex number matrices of electrical circuits analysis which took two sheets of paper and a lot of time in a matter of seconds.
After programming the sequence of steps. You just need to push the variables into the stack, press run and after a few seconds... Voilà! Magically the answer was there.
Then, the first time I sit in front a computer, I knew for sure that was I want to do to make a living.
Since, I worked with a plethora of languages and tools, (Lotus 123, dBase, Clipper, C, C++, Excel, Access, Visual Basic, Pascal, Delphi, R, lots of SQL's, and now JavaScript / MERN Stack)
But I'm always feel as a newbie. It seems that every time I'm mastering something, the tech trend changes and I need to throw almost everything in the trash and restart again.
But the adventure continues and I never give up. Every time I learn a new way to solve a problem, I feel the same satisfaction.
That's why, 31 years after that, I'm still spending almost half of my day coding. Because I love this thing. ;)
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My very first experience coding was when I was 17 in a electronic technical course, with an HP 11c calculator, the scientific version of the eternal 12c, still in the market today.
Then, I was fascinated with the possibility of solving those complex number matrices of electrical circuits analysis which took two sheets of paper and a lot of time in a matter of seconds.
After programming the sequence of steps. You just need to push the variables into the stack, press run and after a few seconds... Voilà! Magically the answer was there.
Then, the first time I sit in front a computer, I knew for sure that was I want to do to make a living.
Since, I worked with a plethora of languages and tools, (Lotus 123, dBase, Clipper, C, C++, Excel, Access, Visual Basic, Pascal, Delphi, R, lots of SQL's, and now JavaScript / MERN Stack)
But I'm always feel as a newbie. It seems that every time I'm mastering something, the tech trend changes and I need to throw almost everything in the trash and restart again.
But the adventure continues and I never give up. Every time I learn a new way to solve a problem, I feel the same satisfaction.
That's why, 31 years after that, I'm still spending almost half of my day coding. Because I love this thing. ;)