Last Updated: 2002-Jan-06
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I have formally studied nine (9) human languages, and have some proficiency in at least two or three of those. Computer programming languages are similar to human (aka "natural") languages: use them or lose them. When I was ten, I took a class in Basic at the Pacific Science Center. When I was 14, my dad bought the family one of the original 1984 Mac 128 computers. Sadly, I never got into programming, and it wasn't until my 20s when I tried delving into MS Word's macro language, and then Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) that I made any progress.
In 1998, I took the first in a series of classes in the C Programming Language that culminates in a Certificate, at the University of Washington's Extension College. My final project was a little application that would tabulate and calculate hours worked for a week, if one was hourly (as I was at the time, as a contractor at Microsoft, through Volt). Now, here in 2002, I once again am resuming the Certificate Series, and hope to earn my C Programming Certificate by the end of the year. Meantime, I continue to try and use Perl in my daily life.
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