What can say? Well, I started programming at school, about 35 years ago. Went on to do a degree in Comp Sci, where we started off using punched cards, and only used terminals towards the end of the course - and this was at one of the UK's pre-eminent universities
Despite learning all about mainframes and tape-based sorts, my first project after leaving uni was a M6800-based embedded computer system. I then did various projects including real-time process control, imaging and signal processing before discovering that jobs in finance paid a lot more cash
Along the way I developed an affection for object-orientation and had several roles as OO mentor on projects. I now work in London for a big bank, as a technical architect.I recently started an Open University course in mathematics
and decided it'd be a good excuse to learn to use LaTeX - for fun and to improve the quality of my course work. For non-UK readers, the Open University is a home-study university, sponsored by the government, that's been around about forty years now. I decided to do this on my newly acquired MacBook Pro, using TeXShop, which seemed to be the best LaTeX tool on the MBP.OK that'll do for now
