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i was 13 when i got access to a computer

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my parents bought me a Macintosh in 1984 when I was 8 years old.

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I was in sixth grade


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I learned to code in college

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Freshman year, first semester of intro to computer science

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I wrote a program to play tic-tac-toe

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It was pretty humble beggings. I think the first program I wrote asks you like whats your favorite color or how old are you?



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i first learned how to make a green circle and then a red square appear on the screen.

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The first time I actually had someone come up and say hello world I made a compter do that it was astonishing.

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Learing how to program didn't start off as how to learn all about computer science or master this disciple or anything like that i wanted to make something that was fun for my sisters. i wrote this program and then I wanted to add something, so I looked it up in a book or looked on the internet and then added a little somthing to it.

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It's not unlike playing an instrument or something or playing ssport. it starts off being very intimidating by it can be learned over time.

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A lot of things can be intimidating but you know, what isn't.

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you know what a lot of the people do coding is fairly simple but what its more about the poroblem of breaking down problems. than coming up with complicated algorythmns that traditionaly people think of it.

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you dont have a genius to write code to neeed to be determined.

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additions, substrations thats about it.

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You should probably know your multiplecation tables, thats about it.

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you don't have to be a genius to code. You don't Do you have to be a genius to read.

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Even if you want to be a race car driver or be a baseball player or build a house. All of these things have been turned upside down by software.

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what it is compters are everywhere do you want to work in agriculture? Do you want to work in entertainment? Do you want to work in manufacturing? its just all over

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Here we are 2013 we all depend on technology to communicate, to bake, information, and none of need to know how to write code!

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when i was in school i was in an after school program called the Wiz Kids and people found out. They laughed at me and you know and all these things. And i am am like its cool and i'm learning things and some of my friends have jobs

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Our policy is literally to hire as many talented engenerrs we can find. the whole limit in the system is there is just not enough people that are trained and have these skills today.

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to get the very best people we try to make the office as awesome as possible.

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We have a fantastic chef, free food, breakfast, lunch and dinner, free laundry. Free snacks, even places to play and video games and scooters.

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There are all these kind of interesting things around the office you can play or relax, or think, or be creative.

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Whether you are trying to make a lot of money or change the world computer programming is incredibly enpowering skill to learn.

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I think if someone told me that software is really about humanity, that it's really about helping people using the computer technology it would have changed my outlook a lot earlier.

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To be able to actually come up with an idea and see it in your hands and thenbe able to press a button and have it be in a millione peoples hands. I mean we are probably the first generation in the world to have that kind of experience.

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Just to think you can start something in your college dorm room and you can have a set of people who havn't built a big company before and come together and build something that a billion people use as part of their daily lives is crazy to think about right? Its amazing

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the programs of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You know you are going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.

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It's amazing. It's the closest thing we have to a super power.

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Great coders are great rock stars. That's it!

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