My technology career began as a curiosity in 1975. I was 11 years old and living next door to an elderly couple. Their son returned from an engineering career in the Air Force and began tinkering with a microprocessor kit. I was curious and he taught me Motorola 6800 machine language. After that, 40 years ago at the time of this writing, he taught me BASIC.
I stuck with BASIC through GWBasic and other versions. When Visual Basic (VB) was released, I dove into the language, relishing the ability to develop Windows programs in a familiar syntax. About the time .Net came out I made the leap to database technology. Lots of my VB friends made the leap to C#. I tried – even writing the demos for my second book project (Professional Software Testing with Visual Studio 2005 Team System) in C#. But for some reason, my brain refused to grasp C#.
And then I began working with Kevin Hazzard.
Kevin is inspirational. And cool. And funny. And intelligent. And cool. And mostly patient, which benefited me greatly. When he found himself dropped into the middle of an SSIS project and needing a little guidance, I took the opportunity to swap him C# tutoring for SSIS tutoring. It worked out well, and I have been developing with C# for several months now. I have a long way to go before I will venture to call myself a C# developer (and it may never happen). But I am comfortable with the language, and that’s something I could not say (or write) a year ago.
Thanks, Kevin, for helping me take another step on my DevJourney.
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