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Re: How Did You Learn How To Program?
I first learned to program from BASIC. I was bored with it in about an hour. Then I learned about Microsoft VisualBasic. I lucked out since Microsoft just recently (then) invested quite a bit of money to commission a 12-video series to kick start people to learn VisualBasic from scratch (learning about concepts like variables or GUI) to building your own RSS Feed Reader. I followed that night and day intensely for a while. Then I got the hang of it. Got good enough to build a VisualBasic program to display all the running processes in a list and interact with a local database.
Then I "picked up" (or honestly, pirate) FlashMX, then I witnessed the Macromedia to Adobe transition. I was pretty big in flash community forum started by an Adobe employee (community evangelist). But those days are over. I don't pirate Flash (just making sure) nor do I work with Flash, but now that there are open source alternatives, I might toy around with that (more compiler-like than an IDE).
After that, I was basically on my own. Once I knew "how things worked" in a simple scale, I was able to bridge that in to more deeper and advanced concepts and knowledge.
Now what I like doing is developing Mac & iPhone apps. I intern every summer for an iPhone app consultancy.
I must say I was pretty lucky that I had a pretty powerful computer at the time, a lot of free time on my hands (5th~6th grade), and that video series that Microsoft had given for free. Now it's hard to find that video series, but I think it's great.
Keehun
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