Stephan Miller

Posts Tagged ‘Google Code’

Other working titles for this article were “Guerilla Programming” and “How to Build Rube Goldberg Apps”, but I had to make a choice.

I fell into programming because I was broke and bored, and I knew software would speed up some of the things I do, so I learned a few languages. All you really have to learn is one major language and then you can write code in a lot of the rest, because most of the common languages are very similar. At least that has been my experience. I started with Basic on a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, wrote shareware in Visual Basic 6, then went to the web with PHP. Along the way, I’ve played around with Ruby and Javascript.  Read more... (1211 words, 3 images, estimated 4:51 mins reading time)