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College
I went to Colorado State University in 1988. As I went through college I forgot about my fantasies of computers changing society. I was focused on writing programs that were more sophisticated than I had ever written before, appreciating architectural features of software and emulating them in my own projects, and learning [...]
Archive for December, 2008
My journey, Part 3
Posted in Education, History, Programming, tagged computer as medium, computer history, computer science on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My journey, Part 2
Posted in History, Programming, tagged american computer science league, computer history, fizzbuzz, Programming, the computer generation, women in computer science on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
See Part 1
A sense of history
“Computer Generation”, May 3, 1982, Time Magazine
I had never seen a machine before that I could change so easily (relative to other machines). I had this sense that these computers represented something big. I didn’t know what it was. It was just a general feeling I got from reading computer [...]
My journey, Part 1
Posted in Programming, tagged computer, media, Programming on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This series of posts has been brewing within me for more than a year, though for some reason it just never felt like the right time to talk about it. Two months ago I found The Machine That Changed The World online, a mini-series I had seen about 15 years ago. I was going to [...]
