http://aaronfeng.com/articles/2008/08/31/software-development-meme en-us 40 Adventures in software development <p>Apparently I was tagged by <a href="http://iqueryable.com/2008/07/25/SoftwareDevelopmentMeme.aspx">Steve Eichert</a> one month ago and I just noticed now. Not only I have been hibernating from writing blog posts, but I also have not had time to read them.</p> <p><strong>How old were you when you first started programming?</strong></p> <p>Freshman in college.</p> <p><strong>How did you get started in programming?</strong></p> <p>I was always into computers growing up, so it was a natural choice.</p> <p><strong>What was your first language?</strong></p> <p>Pascal.</p> <p><strong>What was the first real program you wrote?</strong></p> <p>I worked on a Star Trek adventure game in my senior year in college. I don't remember too much about it except that there wasn't much guide lines around it. The goal was making something interesting and to have fun doing it.</p> <p><strong>What languages have you used since you started programming?</strong></p> <p>C/C++, C#, Java, Javascript, Lisp, Ruby</p> <p><strong>What was your first professional programming gig?</strong></p> <p>If professional means that I got paid for it... and if shell scripting is considered to be programming... Once upon a time, I worked as an <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/os/aix/index.html">AIX</a> Unix Admin and wrote shell scripts to automate mundane, but critical, daily tasks.</p> <p><strong>If you knew then what you know now, would you have started programming?</strong></p> <p>Fo-sho.</p> <p><strong>If there is one thing you learned along the way that you would tell new developers, what would it be?</strong></p> <p>Focus on the basics.</p> <p><strong>What's the most fun you've ever had ... programming?</strong></p> <p>This is really hard for me because I enjoy programming in general. Of course, at times it can get tedious, but overall I find it fun to be able to create things. If I had to pick one I would say the side project I'm working on right now. I don't want to get into the details right now, but it's a rails app that consumes amazon's web service. </p> <p><strong>Who’s next?</strong></p> <p><a href="http://blog.viridian-project.de/">Leslie Polzer</a></p> Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:24:00 -0500 urn:uuid:fdb852d6-fe56-49d6-89ba-dce37ac2346b Aaron Feng http://aaronfeng.com/articles/2008/08/31/software-development-meme programming