In 1982, I took a summer BASIC programming class at our local Firehouse in Gladstone, OR. They had a mix of Commodores, TRS-80s, TI-99's etc.
Then I eventually got my own Vic-20 and C-64 and after that I was always surrounded by computers. I did a little programming here and there. I was always ahead of my teachers for every computer class I took and usually became the teacher's helper who helped other students.
My career started when I learned HTML in the mid 90s. A data entry job for Randstad turned into an HTML/Web application job writing a web-based benefits entry system....that was back when we used hidden frames to maintain state. Things just snowballed from there. My familiarity with BASIC made VB and VBA second nature, and suddenly I was an Access/Office programmer. I learned OO code when working for a company doing Powershell. I had to work with a development team to create a Microsoft word document generator. The web part was all in Java, so I had to learn to read Java...which eventually led me to JavaScript and C#.
Then .Net happened and my resume just kept getting bigger. Today my penchant for learning fast has put me more on the integrations side of things, but now I'm learning frameworks in order to get back to the UI side.
To answer the question, I guess I didn't really choose it, I just fell into it...and I don't even have a college degree. Sometimes your career is just based on something that's become part of you. The logic behind writing code is just something that I started breathing. :)
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In 1982, I took a summer BASIC programming class at our local Firehouse in Gladstone, OR. They had a mix of Commodores, TRS-80s, TI-99's etc.
Then I eventually got my own Vic-20 and C-64 and after that I was always surrounded by computers. I did a little programming here and there. I was always ahead of my teachers for every computer class I took and usually became the teacher's helper who helped other students.
My career started when I learned HTML in the mid 90s. A data entry job for Randstad turned into an HTML/Web application job writing a web-based benefits entry system....that was back when we used hidden frames to maintain state. Things just snowballed from there. My familiarity with BASIC made VB and VBA second nature, and suddenly I was an Access/Office programmer. I learned OO code when working for a company doing Powershell. I had to work with a development team to create a Microsoft word document generator. The web part was all in Java, so I had to learn to read Java...which eventually led me to JavaScript and C#.
Then .Net happened and my resume just kept getting bigger. Today my penchant for learning fast has put me more on the integrations side of things, but now I'm learning frameworks in order to get back to the UI side.
To answer the question, I guess I didn't really choose it, I just fell into it...and I don't even have a college degree. Sometimes your career is just based on something that's become part of you. The logic behind writing code is just something that I started breathing. :)