Post by bernard on Nov 21, 2021 4:25:04 GMT
"Who am I and if yes, how many" was the title of a popular philosophical book some years ago in Germany.
PS. All my education on information technology and programming happened outside universities.
About 1984 I've bought an Atari 800XL with my first earned money, with the idea in mind to learn programming. I was alone with this attempt, but have learned by myself with all available books about Atari Basic to write text to the screen. Later some years I've rarely used the computer but began to code in PowerBASIC, which has become my favourite programming language for some years.
In the 90th I've launched a job for 2 years in which I was responsible for a very small group of women. Our job was to file the old books of several libraries, all public libraries of Berlin-Neukölln, for be managed digitally. In this time I've written DOS batch code and script for the bibliographic database Allegro C (in German wikipedia), for which I became a self-taught specialist. (Allegro C is a non-relational flat-file database developed at University of Braunschweig.) At this time there might have been a hand full of persons in Berlin, Germany which have had the same detailed knowledge of using this special database in all it's possibilities. I even was hired for give a course on Allegro C. This specialized database system has had two powerful script languages, one for data import another for data export. Bernhard Eversberg, the former developer of Allegro C, who retried in 2015, has studied librarianship as well as mathematics.
PS: But after the two years my intensive and thorough occupation with this database ended, because in Germany there is nearly no chance to get a job in several places, if you was not at a university, even if you are similar or even more competent than other persons for the same job. For working for libraries in such a field they want you to have studied librarianship and / or computer science and I only have learned bookseller. Without any university degree or at least some years studying at a university you have no chance at all to get such a job.
I've tried a little bit to use several programming languages: Turbo Pascal, Modula, The Harper Programmer, XBASE, Luchs (a semiprofessional AI language similar to Prolog). Even I've bought a DOS compiler for Lisp many years ago, but honestly said the functional paradigm was not something intuitive for me and I never have written something mentionabel in Lisp. May be it's best to say, that I have sometimes started the Lisp compiler and starred flabbergasted at the waterfall of brackets.
In the late 90th I was first time taught programming basics -- with C and Java as example languages. It was a year of education for multimedia with a strong additional focus to programming. At the programming side of this education were beside C and Java: JavaScript, Lingo and Toolbook.
I have never used C for a program nor Java for something which might be worth any word. But I've studied the basics of OOP with some books.
Later I studied extensively especially JavaScript and also PHP in another year which ended with some certificates for web developing. But both, JavaScript and PHP I currently have not used since several years.
Since some years I do only use Linux, nearly all times Debian or Ubuntu derivatives. The reason was my education for Web development, which has included a Linux certificate, and I decided, that although I was thought Linux before, I will only become really familiar with Linux if I begin to use it by daily base. I've succeeded in nearly every part of this Web education with all or nearly most possible points at the module end tests. But I was upset, that I have had passed the Linux test with the lowest result compared with all other tests of mine.
Since this time I have enhanced my Linux knowledge and have additionally passed f. e. LPIC 1. In the last 2 years I have focused on learning bash scripting. You might find some of my little bash scripts at github: github.com/BerndStorck. Additionally I have a German Facebook-Site focusing on Linux: www.facebook.com/BStLinux/.
Now at 8th of November I entered a sequence of full time IT courses (8 to 16) nearly all about programming: OOP basics, UML, JavaScript, PHP, Java, C++ and at least CCNA. It will take nearly a year to complete this courses, and as far as I heard the Java certificate might be very hard. The teacher who has given the OOP introduction until last Friday mentioned, that if 5 of 10 do pass it successfully this might be a good result. I think of it.
If I do not watch TV via Zattoo or videos via Youtube and do not focus on bash programming, I manipulate or create digital images with GIMP. Years ago was a very proficient user of Corel Photo Paint -- until my computer becomes to old to work with the current versions of Corel Draw.
If I read all this, I guess, I might be a little bit nerdish -- or a giga bit like a computer nerd.
Last to mention: Everybody who really knows me would never be astonished to hear that I was seen with a book.
PS. All my education on information technology and programming happened outside universities.
About 1984 I've bought an Atari 800XL with my first earned money, with the idea in mind to learn programming. I was alone with this attempt, but have learned by myself with all available books about Atari Basic to write text to the screen. Later some years I've rarely used the computer but began to code in PowerBASIC, which has become my favourite programming language for some years.
In the 90th I've launched a job for 2 years in which I was responsible for a very small group of women. Our job was to file the old books of several libraries, all public libraries of Berlin-Neukölln, for be managed digitally. In this time I've written DOS batch code and script for the bibliographic database Allegro C (in German wikipedia), for which I became a self-taught specialist. (Allegro C is a non-relational flat-file database developed at University of Braunschweig.) At this time there might have been a hand full of persons in Berlin, Germany which have had the same detailed knowledge of using this special database in all it's possibilities. I even was hired for give a course on Allegro C. This specialized database system has had two powerful script languages, one for data import another for data export. Bernhard Eversberg, the former developer of Allegro C, who retried in 2015, has studied librarianship as well as mathematics.
PS: But after the two years my intensive and thorough occupation with this database ended, because in Germany there is nearly no chance to get a job in several places, if you was not at a university, even if you are similar or even more competent than other persons for the same job. For working for libraries in such a field they want you to have studied librarianship and / or computer science and I only have learned bookseller. Without any university degree or at least some years studying at a university you have no chance at all to get such a job.
I've tried a little bit to use several programming languages: Turbo Pascal, Modula, The Harper Programmer, XBASE, Luchs (a semiprofessional AI language similar to Prolog). Even I've bought a DOS compiler for Lisp many years ago, but honestly said the functional paradigm was not something intuitive for me and I never have written something mentionabel in Lisp. May be it's best to say, that I have sometimes started the Lisp compiler and starred flabbergasted at the waterfall of brackets.
In the late 90th I was first time taught programming basics -- with C and Java as example languages. It was a year of education for multimedia with a strong additional focus to programming. At the programming side of this education were beside C and Java: JavaScript, Lingo and Toolbook.
I have never used C for a program nor Java for something which might be worth any word. But I've studied the basics of OOP with some books.
Later I studied extensively especially JavaScript and also PHP in another year which ended with some certificates for web developing. But both, JavaScript and PHP I currently have not used since several years.
Since some years I do only use Linux, nearly all times Debian or Ubuntu derivatives. The reason was my education for Web development, which has included a Linux certificate, and I decided, that although I was thought Linux before, I will only become really familiar with Linux if I begin to use it by daily base. I've succeeded in nearly every part of this Web education with all or nearly most possible points at the module end tests. But I was upset, that I have had passed the Linux test with the lowest result compared with all other tests of mine.
Since this time I have enhanced my Linux knowledge and have additionally passed f. e. LPIC 1. In the last 2 years I have focused on learning bash scripting. You might find some of my little bash scripts at github: github.com/BerndStorck. Additionally I have a German Facebook-Site focusing on Linux: www.facebook.com/BStLinux/.
Now at 8th of November I entered a sequence of full time IT courses (8 to 16) nearly all about programming: OOP basics, UML, JavaScript, PHP, Java, C++ and at least CCNA. It will take nearly a year to complete this courses, and as far as I heard the Java certificate might be very hard. The teacher who has given the OOP introduction until last Friday mentioned, that if 5 of 10 do pass it successfully this might be a good result. I think of it.
If I do not watch TV via Zattoo or videos via Youtube and do not focus on bash programming, I manipulate or create digital images with GIMP. Years ago was a very proficient user of Corel Photo Paint -- until my computer becomes to old to work with the current versions of Corel Draw.
If I read all this, I guess, I might be a little bit nerdish -- or a giga bit like a computer nerd.
Last to mention: Everybody who really knows me would never be astonished to hear that I was seen with a book.
