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Newbie Troan
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ok im in 7th grade and i have to interview a person thats job is programming for the carrear choices. no not just programming games for fun(like me ) make acuttly money that u could possibly live off of and be like 21+years old. the only reason im using this board becuase i have dark basic.

1st question
When did you start proggramming??

2nd question
What type a school and colledge did you go to?

3rd question
What programming langs. do you know??

4th question
How much money do you make ??

5th question
Do you work with a team or alone?

6th question
Tell a little somthing about yourself

this is due the 21st and i need that A+ to keep my laptop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Mattman
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Not many people here program for a job. There are a few though.

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Newbie Troan
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i like A+'s i hope one shows up

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lol

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Newbie Troan
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nope dont see any

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Newbie Troan
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maybe ill settle for a B+

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I'll answer your questions off-list if you have an address. For the less personal questions:

1st question
When did you start proggramming??
1983, age 11, Dragon 32 - made Tron Light Cycles when it was still the best film out there!


3rd question
What programming langs. do you know??
Basic
Dark Basic(!)
Visual Basic
Java
RPG
CL
ILE
JavaScript
PHP
HTML (please don't start the "it's not a language" debate again)
Pascal(!)
Several proprietary languages

5th question
Do you work with a team or alone?
Yes, with a team and alone.

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Newbie Troan
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thx StevieVee for ansering (wish i made a A+ in spelling )
also my e-mail is troan282@earthlink.net

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1st question
When did you start proggramming??
- Started Work (programmer) in 1988, still working same company!
- Actually started programming ZX Spectrum around 1984

2nd question
What type a school and colledge did you go to?
- Just a mormal school and normal college! Got A level maths, physics, city & guilds computer programming.

3rd question
What programming langs. do you know??
- HTML, DHTML, Javascript
- Macromedia Coldfusion (my main work language)
- PHP, Perl
- Crystal Reports
- Visual Basic
- DarkBASIC Professional
- various other languages

4th question
How much money do you make ??
- Wouldn't you like to know! Enough to get by on anyway.

5th question
Do you work with a team or alone?
- Team for big projects
- Alone for certain clients

6th question
Tell a little somthing about yourself
- Started work in 1988 after leaving college for a company specialing in writing accountancy software in companies own programming language. Did that for about 8 years. Company then ran mail order computer games shop. I wrote all the software for that. Then moved into web design and e-commerce stuff. I now write loads of database driven websites.

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thx Spooky!

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When did you start programming?
January 2002

What type of school and college did you go to?
I'm currently attending Pocono Mountain West High School. Not in college yet.

What programming languages do you know?
-Dark Basic "Classic"
-HTML

How much money do you make?
I get $10 weekly for allowance

Do you work with a team, or alone?
I rather working with teams, unless they have a real close deadline. Otherwise, I work alone.

Tell a little something about yourself.
I'm 14, I still attend high school, I get average grades, and I program for the fun of it. I'm a decent 3D modeler, and I'm currently modeling for 2 teams. I'm known most in my school as "The Next Grand Theft Auto Maker", well not really, the mostly call me "Hey Kid Move!"


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1st question
When did you start proggramming??
Grade 4 about 21 years ago

2nd question
What type a school and colledge did you go to?
High School and Distance Learning University (Athabasca)

3rd question
What programming langs. do you know??
C, C++, C#, VB, VB.NET, ASP, HTML, DHTML, Cobol, Java, Pascal
and a ton of ones that arnt in use anymore.

4th question
How much money do you make ??
When working full time $1500.00 a week gross, I have made $3000.00 a week, but that was for 2 months, I have also made $800.00 a week when there was no work and desperate. When I was consulting $125.00 /hr if developing, $85.00 /hr consulting, $25.00 hour when on call.

I have a friend who works for Raytheon who makes over 100k a year, but hes a math super freak. 8 years of school. No life.

5th question
Do you work with a team or alone?
Both, prefer alone.

6th question
Tell a little somthing about yourself
Im weird. Introvert personality, and love games. Married for 5 years 5 months. 6 foot 7, 330 lbs, nick name eclipse and wookie (im hairy), been off work for 5 months and a fwe days due to a work injury, maybe permanent. (I suffer from chronic migranes)

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You could've just emailed Lee or Mike, I'm sure one of them would have gladly filled in the interview. I did one with Rick for Business Management a while back and he had no problems with it.

"Computers are useless they can only give you answers."
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adr
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1st question
When did you start proggramming??
Quite late really - played around in basic when I was 10 or 11, but started seriously when I was 17.

2nd question
What type a school and colledge did you go to?
College (16-18) followed by University (18-21).

3rd question
What programming langs. do you know??
Off the top of my head: C/C++, Java, PHP, VB, Delphi, Perl, PHP, MySQL (not really a language, but you need to know how to use it), HTML, Javascript, ... oh, and Dark Basic


4th question
How much money do you make ??
£18k (~ $30k) .. It's my first post-graduation job, and I've only been here 6 months, so that's why it ain't so much

5th question
Do you work with a team or alone?
Team of 5

6th question
Tell a little somthing about yourself

22, first job like I said. Work in the UK. Here's some culture for you, the building in which I work has a history dating back to the 1600s - Extremely grand building. Bought my first house a coupla months ago and my girlfriend moved in with me.

this is due the 21st and i need that A+ to keep my laptop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're in 7th Grade and you have a laptop?! I bought mine as a present to myself for my 21st Birthday (ahh, student loans)

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Quote: "1st question
When did you start proggramming??"

Around 8/9 - just after the Commodore 64 came out

Quote: "2nd question
What type a school and colledge did you go to?"

Junior school, CofE Comprehensive, Chichester College, University.

Quote: "3rd question
What programming langs. do you know??"

ARM Assembler, 6502/6510 Assembler, Pascal, C/C++, 68000 Assembler,
Intel Assembler, and a few more that I can't remember the name of.

Quote: "4th question
How much money do you make ??"

A year ? Around £16,000

Quote: "5th question
Do you work with a team or alone?"

I'm alone as the boss cant afford anyone else at the moment. The situation does let me work under a flexitime system - I program when I want to , and I can more or less do what I like here.

Quote: "6th question
Tell a little somthing about yourself"

Male and very single.


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Eric T
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1. The year 1993 i belive, in QBasic.

2. Well i am in high school right now(senior year) but at night i attend University classes in Game design and 3d Modelling at the University of Utah.

3.BASIC, QBASIC, DarkBASIC, DarkBASIC Pro, BlitzBASIC 3d, C, C++, HTML, PHP, Pascal

4.$21,000 a year in programming, go';s to $39,000 if you count my other jobs.

5.Well, i have worked on a team at GameSTOP, updating and doing a new site (you now, changing that damned Funcoland site), and i do alot of work alone or freelance.

6.I am 17, i like to program, and when i'm not programing, i am sleeping.

Working on 4 projects 2 RPG(programming texturing and 3d map), 1 3rd person shooter (Programming), and a special project.
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You go to school at day, attend Uni at night and yet somehow you can still fit in a job that pays $21k a year at the age of 17?

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easy-


6:35am wake up

7:45am school i only have 3 classes, (english, a+, networking+) that takes about 2 hours (in english now...heheh)

9:50am I goto work, at Gamestop, 10 mintutes before custemer access. I work till 6:00 pm

by 7:15, i am over at the university taking those classes till 10PM

i head home and program till about 3am

then i sleep 2 hours..

this is not my schedule on saturdays and sundays, that is a schedule which gives me time to sleep.

But yeah, its a busy life, but those 2 classes at the university cost a hell of alot so i gotta work to pay for them, till next yer, of course..

Working on 4 projects 2 RPG(programming texturing and 3d map), 1 3rd person shooter (Programming), and a special project.
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Raytheon: the one based in harlow???

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1st question
When did you start proggramming??
1983. I was 10. On a speccy 48k.

2nd question
What type a school and colledge did you go to?
Normal comprehensive school. Went to a BTEC college to do computing cos A-Levels didn't do computing 100% of the time. Then University to do Computer science degree.

3rd question
What programming langs. do you know??
Thoroughbred Basic (Unix business basic language)
Visual Basic
Hmmm... Make that a lot of basics that I have used a lot over the years including QBasic, GW-Basic, and various business basic languages used over the years (eg. IBM's Universe - STEP/Unidata variant)
Cobol
Ada (which essentially means Pascal, Delphi, and Modula 2 are a stone throw away)
Java
Note: I did not include non-professional languages (eg. DB) or anything I don't think I could get a good job at (tonnes of langs in Uni and messed with eg. C++, just not to my satisfaction of job worthy standard). Also no internal languages mentioned. eg. VBA (Excel etc) or Oracle/SQL/DBase stuff.



4th question
How much money do you make ??
Hohoho. Don't think I'll answer that one. Lets just say I do pretty well. Heh, pretty well for a non-contractor that it.

5th question
Do you work with a team or alone?
Ummm... yes and no. I'm a teamleader and sort the team out basically. Although we rarely do multi-programmer modifications. Generally chuck a job at a person and let them get on with it.

6th question
Tell a little somthing about yourself
Hmmm. I work as a programmer in the travel industry (LP, Thomson etc). Always wanted to work as a programmer as my ideal job. Annoyingly includes a lot of other rubbish. But still good. Um... love fast cars, and erm... the usual.. Also (for the first time ever) considering alternative career. Probably not the kind of thing you want to hear, but basically the IT industry (in UK at least, and by the look of it, also the US) is in a shambles at the min (seems to be continuing from 911), and programming (and all that comes with it) can be really really stressful (not the programming itself; is really easy after a few years, just all the rest of it - big eg. deadlines and Project damagers - heh managers). Never thought I'd say it, but unless I program for myself (ie. own business) then I may get out. If I could become a writer (total dream job) I would move to Florida (houses are cheap as s**t out there) and live the good life. Sigh....

Cheers

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pretty well for a non-contractor that is.
Ahh - the golden pot at the end of the rainbow - contracting. Dammit. Contracting was practically a lisence to print money when I left for uni (1999), and then just as I graduate, the arse of the IT market falls out. I remember when simple helpdesk support could earn you as much as a mid-career programmer's post would now!

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Thx everyone!! how can i choose just 1 ??? well i still got 6 days and alrdy 22 mssgs
Quote: "You could've just emailed Lee or Mike, I'm sure one of them would have gladly filled in the interview. I did one with Rick for Business Management a while back and he had no problems with it."

i couldve but the forum is better

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Quote: "You're in 7th Grade and you have a laptop?! I bought mine as a present to myself for my 21st Birthday (ahh, student loans)"

also ADR its not for school work its just my laptop that i got for my birthday my parents will take it from me without good grades

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Hmmm. Basically contracting is a very individual thing. Not everyone likes it, and everyone will hate you with a passion if you are one of the only contractors in a company. Some examples:-

1. Friend of mine earned about £1500 ($2000+?) a week (after tax) as a contractor. That was his second contracting job. He blagged this job BTW
2. One guy in our place earned around £150k ($220k+?) a year for about 5 years as a contractor. Mainly because the company couldn't be bothered to find a full time person for his job. Git...
3. A contractor in our place was 22 years old, had never done contracting in his life, and had only ever worked on computer games as a translator (he translated Carmmaggedon into Japanese apparently). He used to earn £20k a year, but we paid him that for 6 months work. Turned out he was s**t and left after 3 months. Still...

Interestingly all the contractors I know are having a harder time now, esp since Y2K and 911. Estimates are around a quarter of jobs there were 2 years ago. If that. A lot of them are turning to full time employment.

Cheers

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@Newbie Troan : How bout you use all the interviews. Who knows, you might get an A+


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hmmm you got a point thier but i might have to read it outloud itll take to long

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Then read some random persons interview determined by a dice roll.


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Ya contractors have the plauge in most companies. When I did contract out I made sure i was in a small company with a limited or no IT service.

I was in one company with a 4 man IT service, and they tried everything to get me out. After a couple weeks of crap and more crap. I was called before the CEO and major players in the company. I talked to them for about 7 hours. Their IT people were fired. I stayed on handling things until they could hire new people.

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i can feel a A+ =D

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1st question - When did you start proggramming?

1981 using the Tandy Color Computer (Basic and Assembly Language)

2nd question - What type a school and colledge did you go to?

No college, but I attended a number of USAF technical schools during my military career. While I did go to tech school for computer programming, I am self taught and I simply pick up a book and learn a new language when I need to.

3rd question - What programming langs. do you know?

Several flavors of Basic, ASM, ADA, C/C++, Pascal, Java, Javascript, HTML, Perl, Visual Basic, SQL, what ever I need to get the job done.

4th question - How much money do you make?

50K+ USD

5th question - Do you work with a team or alone?

I work with a whole department of business analysts, but I am the only VB applications and tools developer they have.

6th question - Tell a little somthing about yourself

Lets see... Spent 12 years in the Air Force moving from various jobs as my wanderlust struck me: A-10 Weapons Specialist, Microwave Communication and Security Systems Specialist, and finally Computer Programmer. Got married and started a family so I decided to leave the Air Force and become a civilian programmer for a number of companies in the Oklahoma City area. Currently, I'm an application programmer for a large insurance company. While I could choose a career as a game designer and programmer, I like the stability of the corporate culture. So, I keep my gaming development at the hobby level.

How did I get into computer programming? Two separate events
come to mind: Back in the eighties, I was one of those arcade junkies. I'd could easily drop several hundred dollars a paycheck in quarters. As a challenge to myself, I stopped cold turkey for a few weeks and used the money that I saved to buy my first computer.
Still, I never got beyond the hobby stage with CoCos and C-64s. The second event that changed my career was when I was stationed at the USAF alternate headquarters at Tinker AFB. I worked the night shift and was surrounded by dozens of PCs. I put some of my slack time into teaching myself C programming and decided to make that my new USAF job. I've been a professional programmer ever since.
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Just on the side, i learnt to program on a Archemedies Acorn, pressing F11 (i think) gave you CMD access, then type BASIC and you away.

Thats how i broke it too, i cannot remember how but i was playing with screen settings and did somming, never worked after that.

[I alsokicked it a few times.]

But i was lucky, i had a CD Rom and Tape Drive

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I think it was F12 for the command prompt (cant remember now either). I tended to use basic through !edit, and not bother with the command prompt. Until I got my RiscPC, my A3010 just had a floppy drive.

It does tend to help if you dont kick it...


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YAY school canceleed becuase of a hurricane

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post fading away must save it......

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Why ?


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Did you get a grade yet?


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What did ya get?

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hmm since the hurricane in all they moved it to this friday

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