Yeah, back in 2000 I was just starry eyed with what code could do, I made stupid crazy things that would fly around the screen or spit out Simpson's quotes. Coming up with solutions from scratch for problems made me feel like Superman.
My first real job was with what ended up being a new pyramid scheme and I remember the day it finally went online and the management were hooting and hollering in the office at all the money rubes were paying in the first few hours, never to be seen again. It was monstrous.
I feel both lucky and dumb that I just needed to know the basics about code to get by in college, and that I liked doing just that and learning to think algorithmically, but that I never went into anything that could feed me by just coding so I managed to steer away from the business end of software.
Yeah, back in 2000 I was just starry eyed with what code could do, I made stupid crazy things that would fly around the screen or spit out Simpson's quotes. Coming up with solutions from scratch for problems made me feel like Superman.
My first real job was with what ended up being a new pyramid scheme and I remember the day it finally went online and the management were hooting and hollering in the office at all the money rubes were paying in the first few hours, never to be seen again. It was monstrous.
I feel both lucky and dumb that I just needed to know the basics about code to get by in college, and that I liked doing just that and learning to think algorithmically, but that I never went into anything that could feed me by just coding so I managed to steer away from the business end of software.