Re:Girls and Software
by SomeCallMeTim on Monday February 10, 2014 @03:45AM
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>I may be a bit bias because while I consider myself a hacker I didn't have the net before I was 18 at home.
I'm a hacker and "the net" didn't exist before I was 18.
My learning came from the books I bought, and the magazines I subscribed to. Somehow, without IRC or Google to help, I taught myself to program a computer, and wrote an entire game in assembly language (reinventing the concept of linking object files in the process) which I then sold. While I was in high school. I also designed and built an expansion board for my computer with only the IC technical manuals.
By college I was doing real video game consulting work.
I had one awesome friend who was also a good programmer, and we lived and breathed programming together. But beyond that, I was on my own.
It can happen without unfettered Internet access at 9 years old.
I'm a hacker and "the net" didn't exist before I was 18.
My learning came from the books I bought, and the magazines I subscribed to. Somehow, without IRC or Google to help, I taught myself to program a computer, and wrote an entire game in assembly language (reinventing the concept of linking object files in the process) which I then sold. While I was in high school. I also designed and built an expansion board for my computer with only the IC technical manuals.
By college I was doing real video game consulting work.
I had one awesome friend who was also a good programmer, and we lived and breathed programming together. But beyond that, I was on my own.
It can happen without unfettered Internet access at 9 years old.