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Willard R Colebank

I started my computing skills at Purdue University
I think it was Fortran. Many hours in line as I waited to make my punch cards, do loops, etc. At age 66 I would love to make an app on my smartphone

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Nick Karnik

That's incredible! I am here to help if you need anything. :)

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Willard R Colebank

Nick, great. I have early on-stage Alzheimer's disease and memory loss. I need something cool and easy to use for Alzheimer's Patients to help them remember things simply. There are millions of people in this country and others that suffer from this disease. It would be great if you checked out altz.org to see what people are going through with dementia, which I also have.

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Nick Karnik

Thanks, @colebanross !

I wanted to mention for other readers that there's a typo in the URL. The correct URL is alz.org.

A couple of my close relatives have had Alzheimer's and I definitely worry about that with me because I'm starting to forget stuff over the years.

Sorry that you are going through all this. I am happy to help you with this project if you have an idea that you'd like to explore.

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Chris

Boiler up! Lol, I learned Fortran my freshman year at Purdue, in 2000 in the engineering college. I read that the new language specification has some object- oriented principles... maybe it will make a comeback??