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Re:Software Engineering Grads Lack the Skills Startups Need by ghaff on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:54PM (#20831288)
I didn't touch a personal computer until a few years later in a job where we had an Apple II to do some engineering calculations. High school was BASIC using a teletype connected to a local community college--and that was pretty forward looking at the time.

I did take a FORTRAN course in college which people would consider very rudimentary today. This was the textbook :-) https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6795090W/A_Fortran_coloring_...

But I didn't really use a computer to speak of (other than as a text editor in grad school) until I was working--and later got into programming as a hobby.

Re:Software Engineering Grads Lack the Skills Startups Need by ericd on Thursday August 29, 2019 @01:07PM (#20831430)
Oh, that's a pretty sweet looking textbook. Reminds me a bit of http://landoflisp.com/