I've always been curious and somewhat technically inclined, but also the guy that would put on a tie (I can actually do three different tieknots and a bowtie...) and go out and swing my arms madly around until someone pitied me enough to invest in or buy whatever I happened to be selling at the time. Worked pretty well too.
Then I started coming here, and realised that there was so much I didn't know, and that if I could learn it I would have a much easier time creating good products. Instead of the whole arm-swinging business to convince someone to program something for me I could just learn how to do it myself!
And so I did. And I realised that I should have done so ten years ago.
So thanks a lot, and sorry for all the silly questions.
Me too actually. When I first started coming here I had barely written a line of code and was rapidly discovering my chosen career path of aerospace engineer was boring the hell out of me and not what I thought it would be. Then all of a sudden I found myself reading about programming non-stop, a good hint that a change is at hand!
So I was able to talk my way into the software development team and have been learning like mad ever since, thanks mostly to this site.
Even though I had little experience, the sheer variety of technologies and points of view I've seen here has made an enormous difference in getting me started.
I've always been curious and somewhat technically inclined, but also the guy that would put on a tie (I can actually do three different tieknots and a bowtie...) and go out and swing my arms madly around until someone pitied me enough to invest in or buy whatever I happened to be selling at the time. Worked pretty well too.
Then I started coming here, and realised that there was so much I didn't know, and that if I could learn it I would have a much easier time creating good products. Instead of the whole arm-swinging business to convince someone to program something for me I could just learn how to do it myself!
And so I did. And I realised that I should have done so ten years ago.
So thanks a lot, and sorry for all the silly questions.