There is an interesting tale behind this, I first saw a computer in the early 1990's at my school. My youger sister was learning LOGO at school. I took her book and read through in summer. The next year I started learning Basica at school in my 8th grade. My fascination grow when i saw somebody play Prince of Persia game on a 486 PC. I went onto study Computer Science in College . I started learning algorithms and programmed in FORTRAN 77 and PASCAL.

I still remember my programming assignment which exposed me to a different language called Scheme. I could see the power of recursion in action. We had to convert a 600 line c code to scheme. The scheme code turned out to be only 100 lines. I learnt Visual basic 6.0 in college, which taught my how to build data driven application. This helped land ino my first real job which was developing a contact management system in Visual Basic 6 and MS Access. From there I went on learning web programming and developed applications in classic ASP and moved to .NET.

posted on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 4:52 PM | Filed Under [ Personal Fun ]

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# re: How I became a Programmer
Posted by Badri
on 6/24/2009 10:14 AM
O nice story ... Welcome back
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