My name is Andy Anderson, and I`ve been a computer professional since I graduated from the University of Georgia in June of 1983. My formal education includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, and several additional courses in system administration and computer security. On a less formal note, I grew up on the space program of the 1960s and lived through the personal computer revolution in the 1970s and 1980s - from the Radio Shack TRS-80 and the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore-64, through the Apple IIe, the original IBM PC, then the XT and AT, and on to the generic Windows-based computers of today. I`ve built computers from components and upgraded computers with new hard drives, more memory, video adapters, network cards, etc. I`ve installed, configured, and used every major version of Windows since Windows/386, as well as some other, less well-known operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD. I was one of the few OS/2 users (back in the day, as they say), and I`m a little bit experienced with Intel-based Macs with OS-X. However, programming is still my favorite thing to do with computers. I first learned to program in FORTRAN using punch cards on an IBM 370 mainframe. After that I learned COBOL, Pascal, and IBM 360/370 assembly language while still in school. While working my first professional job I taught myself C and dabbled a bit with Ada (does anyone still use Ada today?). In the late 1990s I learned to create web pages with HTML and CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts. In the early 1990s, I learned Java, used it for one medium-sized project, and haven`t really used it since. A few years ago, I played with Python and Django, but never developed a passion for either. Most recently I`ve been focusing on HTML 5, CSS 3, and the latest incarnation of JavaScript, with an eye toward web development - most likely back-end development.
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