I am an old aged person compared to most members here. I started my career in software development back in 1989-1998. Got into management and lost touch completely.
Very interesting post. When I started my classss for computer sciences back in 1988, for few weeks I wasn't even comfortable touching the computer. Eventually the same field changed my life and I was considered a very good developer. Then came the change of era from procedural languages to OOP with GUI based interfaces to write software in VB, I lost it there and could not handle OOP concepts with such a programming interface. Anyway, ky career never required me to ever worry about writing code anymore. But I guess once a programmer always a programmer. I developed that itch lately for writing software and I realized I am way behind and all of this is completely new to me. Lately I have started reading again and took Python as first one to get myself comfortable. Reason was that while it has OOP concepts, it also has a procedural language style. Not sure if all this would bring some change in my life or not (_)
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I am an old aged person compared to most members here. I started my career in software development back in 1989-1998. Got into management and lost touch completely.
At the age of about 50 where I have seen great success in my career working in senior management roles for fortune 100 companies, I still feel that I took up management roles very early in life.
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Very interesting post. When I started my classss for computer sciences back in 1988, for few weeks I wasn't even comfortable touching the computer. Eventually the same field changed my life and I was considered a very good developer. Then came the change of era from procedural languages to OOP with GUI based interfaces to write software in VB, I lost it there and could not handle OOP concepts with such a programming interface. Anyway, ky career never required me to ever worry about writing code anymore. But I guess once a programmer always a programmer. I developed that itch lately for writing software and I realized I am way behind and all of this is completely new to me. Lately I have started reading again and took Python as first one to get myself comfortable. Reason was that while it has OOP concepts, it also has a procedural language style. Not sure if all this would bring some change in my life or not (_)
Thank you for your comment. I have had the same thought about moving from a programming job into a management role, I think I'd really miss coding!
At the age of about 50 where I have seen great success in my career working in senior management roles for fortune 100 companies, I still feel that I took up management roles very early in life.