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Is it ever too late to get into techie stuff or is it a young person's game?
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i'm a techie from birth.. born 1980, we had a ZX81 in 1979 then a BBC Micro in 1985. Learnt to program about then.. guess what, i work in IT now.
Just to stir things up a little i decided to do a degree in genetics. Not sure why, i think i liked jurassic park too much and i just saw the human genome as a big computer ready for me to program.
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i'm a techie from birth.. born 1980, we had a ZX81 in 1979 then a BBC Micro in 1985. Learnt to program about then.. guess what, i work in IT now.
Just to stir things up a little i decided to do a degree in genetics. Not sure why, i think i liked jurassic park too much and i just saw the human genome as a big computer ready for me to program.
Ditto, born in 1980 we had zx81 then spectrum 48k then 128k, then Acorn Archimedes....... I'm now unemployed but completing a PhD in nanoelectronics. I watched too much Star Trek I think.
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Ditto, born in 1980 we had zx81 then spectrum 48k then 128k, then Acorn Archimedes....... I'm now unemployed but completing a PhD in nanoelectronics. I watched too much Star Trek I think.
Before my current job in IT i was a computational biology research assistant - Fairly high up on the nerd scale.
I made a hardware interface between my dad's stepping machine and my Amiga 500 when I was 14. Then I wrote a game in AMOS where you played Mr Blobby, being chased by a bear, to use the interface.
Oh the shame. The only nerdy thing I do in my free time now is make the occasional website.
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Another 80's child (1981). First computer was a Commodore 16 with the tapes that took 50 minutes to load! Really got into things from the age of 16, and eventually went on to do a Computer Science degree. Am now a Java/.Net developer.
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Wow some years of experience here, I am 31 and am interested in become an IT whizz any of you out there got any tips. My knowledge is limited but i am willing to put in about 10 hours per week.
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i'm a techie from birth.. born 1980, we had a ZX81 in 1979 then a BBC Micro in 1985. Learnt to program about then.. guess what, i work in IT now.
Just to stir things up a little i decided to do a degree in genetics. Not sure why, i think i liked jurassic park too much and i just saw the human genome as a big computer ready for me to program.
That is weird.
My sister was born in '80 and she has a degree in Human Genetics, is currently finishing her masters in Forensic Science. She is working in a crime lab and is trained to present evidence at trial.
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Depends what you mean by Techie stuff. I was into electronics from about the age of 15 (and mechanical stuff much earlier than that). If you mean computing, I didn't lay hands on a computer until I was about 18 (it was a brand shiny new at work). I didn't learn to program (properly) until I was about 24 when I became a test software engineer (using mainly good old ).
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When I met my husband who worked for a computer company back in 1981.
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I'm 42 and in the middle of an IT degree with the Open University (Bsc (hons) IT and Computing).
I started it as a hobby and purely for myself (TV is pants and I wanted to make more use of my free time), but I find I'm doing more and more IT work for people as time goes by. You never know, I might even switch career one day (I've always worked in the construction industry).
If you have an active interest in something, I don't believe it's ever too late to do something about it.
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My dad is 70 and has just completed all the IT courses our local college offers - I am trying to persuade him to try his hand at HE level learning but he feels he is 'too old'. I fear that he would actually wipe the floor with any of the youngsters he shared lectures with. Age is just a number, I think.
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Playing with computers since 4 ZX80/81 Spectrum 48k and a 128k andI was confused for a while and tuned to consoles but returned to PC's on the 086 yeah pre 286 ect I started upgradeing hardware at about 14/15 with my 486 and it just went from there. I did IT at A level and got a jobin a computer shop for experiance for a few month then started for another company in build and I progressed to phone support and field engineer, moved again to another comapny and progressed again to a more specialised part of IT the travel industry and have been doing it for the last 7 years I think the last 3 I have been self employed. would I do it again? proberlby not the industry was the big thing to do when it was my time and people think it still is we could make a fortune selling hardware back then but now just buy from Dell or HP they are cheaper and more people are confident in buying their hardware than the were a few years ago.
10 hours a week? It turns in to your life not just 10 hours aweek.
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70's child, started around 6 mainly playing games on atari 2600 moved onto Acorn electrons got interested in programing so i could hack the football manager game to my advantage .
seemed to have followed similar progression paths and ended up doing Java development as a day job, with a sideline in .NET
question is are you ever too young? trying to get my 3 year old into development - but she only wants to play with MS paint for some reason
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Yet another 80's child here (1980), now a software developer. Had computers around since I was born due to Dad being in the same career, started programming on a £7000 (yes thats not a typo) 386 with 4MB of RAM and a double-spaced 40MB hard drive!
To think kids are walking around with 80GB in their pockets now, bought on the high street with Christmas money!
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Started when I was about 10 with a C64 - never looked back.
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I guess I was 9 or so when I got my Amstrad CPC 6128 - whilst it did actually have a disc drive!!! none of the shops round me sold anything on disc for amstrad so ended up using a tape player anyway.
Properly got into Tech when I started to BBC Basic programming at school - really basic "fighting fantasy"/ RPG type text based games.... unfortunately even though one of them did extend to over 10,000 lines of code I never finished writting one (and ended up with lots of options that never went anywhere
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(and ended up with lots of options that never went anywhere
So you were simulating real life then
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So you were simulating real life then
No, it was much better than real life as it told you it couldnt find line 1516 rather than just letting you continue wandering round
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I have mainly self taught myself since the age of 14 when my dad built me my first computer, but I mainly started to be really intrested in it about a year or so ago at 21, I can do loads with a computer that some don't even know is possible. I can now diagnose many problems and know how to fix it, I have set up, fixed and helped people with their computers. I learned how to master excel in about 2 weeks, can do graphics ect.
I used to be cool, now I am a nerd
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When I was 63, Student phil., the info from the net is phenomenal, can research in an instant, communication is immediate, tv is fiction and losing, phones are free, and computer is ideal when you are retired. What's next!! Can't wait.