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Why and When to Learn to Program

Spencer Fry

I took a Visual Basic class in high school, enjoyed it, graduated in 2002 and entered college on track to get a Computer Science degree. Who wants to stare at a terminal all day just to get an algorithm to compile properly? I wanted to build real-world projects for the Web. My head just wasn't in it.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

My entry into web development (after 7 years of Unix development, 4 writing console games, and 3 writing router firmware) was helping my father-in-law’s company. I gather you assume that everyone’s a web developer? of computers, that for various reasons can’t be a web page” a good reason?

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