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location | Quebec | |
age | 31 | |
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Learned programming when I unearthed an old Commodore64 in my early teens and fiddled with BASIC 2.0 until I realised QBasic wasn't too far off, then "discovered" VB 4.0 a bit later, and ended up dropping out of CS out of boredom.
Worked in the retail industry for just about a decade, climbed the ladder up to retail merchandise planning manager, while developing my own tools with vba & excel. Eventually learned to structure data into an ms-access database, learned the basics of sql, and at one point a DBA showed me SSMS & sql-server - couple months down the line and I was a junior programmer in the company's web dev team, and that's when I realized that everything I thought I knew until then was utter crap, that I basically knew nothing and that my life would have been totally different if I hadn't dropped out of CS.
I learned my c# and .net by reading through those bricks I kept ordering from Amazon. More recently I started getting into dependency-injection and learning about other design-patterns. The more code I write, the more I can't stand looking at what I wrote 2 months ago.
I have some [fairly basic] knowledge of asp.net and asp.net-mvc-3, but I do mostly windows development, in vb6 when I have to (that's actually debugging & maintenance of not-my-code); I played a bit with winforms but not since I started learning wpf, because xaml is the best thing since sliced bread and I have a lot to learn still... and I'm lovin' it!
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