On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 22:28 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: > On 10-07-29 10:18 PM, David McGlone wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 22:14 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: > >> Early high school I used to program in basic on a TRS-80. Oh how I loved > >> saving my programs to audio cassette. Later in high school I learned > >> pascal and then later qbasic. Later still I studied computer science and > >> was exposed to many different languages C, C++, Smalltalk, Java, > >> Scheme, Prolog, Perl, JavaScript, HTML, VRML, SQL that I remember. When > >> I finished university I walked straight into a PHP job knowing not an > >> iota of PHP. I came up to speed the first week and fell in love with it. > >> That was around March 2000. The company there always used Java also, as > >> part of a desktop suite to manage the web content. Towards the end of > >> 2002 they began an effort to create a Java based web framework to > >> parallel their PHP framework and so I used Java more at that time. Then > >> the dot com crash caught up with them and layoffs ensued. > >> > > What High School did you go to? What year? As far as I remember when I > > was in HS, nothing about computers was offered. this was back in '88. > > I was attending the Nechako Valley Secondary School in Vanderhoof, > British Columbia, Canada in 1989 when I was learning Pascal. Now that I > think of it more deeply, it wasn't Qbasic in high schoool, it was Watcom > Basic while attending Timmins High & Vocational School in Timmins, > Ontario, Canada in 1990 or 1991. Qbasic was at home :) Actually, I'm not > sure about Timmins for the Watcom Basic, it might have been Lockerby > Composite in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. I attended 4 different high > schools. Some if it is blurry now :)
Sounds like Canada has a good grade school system. I wish programming languages were offered here when I was in HS. -- Blessings, David M. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
