{"id":17,"date":"2008-02-29T21:08:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T04:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2008-02-29T21:08:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T04:08:12","slug":"my-formal-computer-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"My (formal) computer education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I  figure it couldn&#8217;t hurt to jot done some things about the computer classes I took in school. \u00c2\u00a0When growing up in Dolton, if you scored high enough on the standardized tests, you could take a special summer class and basically play on the computers for the summer. \u00c2\u00a0Way cool. \u00c2\u00a0In Junior High, I was ruined as a programmer forever with a basic class. \u00c2\u00a0In high school&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0small towns are useless for education anyway. \u00c2\u00a0College is more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>C, C++, perl, html, java, java 2, user interface design, system administration, network programming, networking, Unix, CGI, windows programming, data structures in C. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m sure there are a few more in there somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>By\u00c2\u00a0far\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0most\u00c2\u00a0interesting\u00c2\u00a0were\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0Data Structures, Perl, and network programming classes. \u00c2\u00a0Data structures taught from the bare C &#8211; structures, algorithms, sorting, big-O notation, trees, that kind of thing. \u00c2\u00a0Network Programming taught about networks, sockets, programming, I\/O. \u00c2\u00a0And perl made it easy and fun. \u00c2\u00a0I think that&#8217;s why a lot of people fall into those languages. \u00c2\u00a0They get to something that makes life so much easier and remember that forever. \u00c2\u00a0Gee, this isn&#8217;t just interesting, it&#8217;s fun too!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve\u00c2\u00a0got\u00c2\u00a0more,\u00c2\u00a0but\u00c2\u00a0this\u00c2\u00a0has\u00c2\u00a0been\u00c2\u00a0sitting\u00c2\u00a0for\u00c2\u00a0about\u00c2\u00a0a\u00c2\u00a0month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figure it couldn&#8217;t hurt to jot done some things about the computer classes I took in school. \u00c2\u00a0When growing up in Dolton, if you scored high enough on the standardized tests, you could take a special summer class and basically play on the computers for the summer. \u00c2\u00a0Way cool. \u00c2\u00a0In Junior High, I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imaginarybillboards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}