Because I somehow knew I would get all involved in it, my first impulse was to avoid learning how to code and just enjoy using that 'new' devise called a computer. I was fascinated at the things it could do so my friend set me up with a 386-25, Windows 3.1 machine. He really did me a favor, set up several what were then 'trick' BAT files on startup so I went right into Windows. As I said, I was fascinated.
During the first week of playing with my new machine, I got hold of a copy of DOS disks and through experimentation with my toy, learned many things about how computers and software work. I thought it was a later version of DOS and I thought I'd be real cool and upgrade the system by myself. Whether it was a later version or not, I ended up ruining the entire installation - could never boot again, much less get back into Windows again.
Long story short, I more-or-less forced myself to learn how the thing ticked - followed the programming chain from BASIC to QBASIC to C to C++ before abandoning compiled languages for PHP and the proverbial LAMP stack. The whole trail led me to actually enjoyment of coding by developing interactive websites from the ground up and from the inside out. Long live coding!
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Because I somehow knew I would get all involved in it, my first impulse was to avoid learning how to code and just enjoy using that 'new' devise called a computer. I was fascinated at the things it could do so my friend set me up with a 386-25, Windows 3.1 machine. He really did me a favor, set up several what were then 'trick' BAT files on startup so I went right into Windows. As I said, I was fascinated. During the first week of playing with my new machine, I got hold of a copy of DOS disks and through experimentation with my toy, learned many things about how computers and software work. I thought it was a later version of DOS and I thought I'd be real cool and upgrade the system by myself. Whether it was a later version or not, I ended up ruining the entire installation - could never boot again, much less get back into Windows again. Long story short, I more-or-less forced myself to learn how the thing ticked - followed the programming chain from BASIC to QBASIC to C to C++ before abandoning compiled languages for PHP and the proverbial LAMP stack. The whole trail led me to actually enjoyment of coding by developing interactive websites from the ground up and from the inside out. Long live coding!