Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:27 am by itcamefrommars
I really like what he says in his end chapter. The one page "advice from an old programmer".
'Finally, I will say that learning to create software changes you and makes you different. Not better or worse, just
different. You may find that people treat you harshly because you can create software, maybe using words like “nerd”.
Maybe you’ll find that because you can dissect their logic that they hate arguing with you. You may even find that
simply knowing how a computer works makes you annoying and weird to them.
To this I only have one piece of advice: they can go to hell.
The world needs more weird people who know how things
work and who love to figure it all out. When they treat you like this, just remember that this is your journey, not theirs.
Being different is not a crime, and people who tell you it is are just jealous that you’ve picked up a skill they never in
their wildest dreams could acquire.
You can code. They cannot. That is pretty damn cool.'
Fuck ya! haha
this reminds me of copying software out of COMPUTE magazine in the 80's...
that's really how I learned programming!
Typing it in, fixing typos, screwin with the code, making my own code.
It was really fun.
