Getting to know me...

[kerravonsen]

Appropriated from izhilzha:

The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

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[kerravonsen]

It was sort of an ongoing process.

My first encounter with (crude) programming was in Social Studies at school, but that wasn't much.

In the later years of High School I started going to Scripture Union camps -- Surf Camp, MADD camp (Music Art Dance and Drama) (or did I only go to MADD camp as a leader? I can't remember). Anyway, when I was in Year 11 or Year 12, I signed up for an Art camp, in one of the middle-of-the-school-year holidays, which was being run as a combined camp with a Computer camp (and, incidentally, was being held at my school, since it was also a boarding school and the boarders weren't there during the holidays, and had both art and computer facilities available). Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned: there weren't enough people signed up for the Art camp, so willy-nilly, everyone who'd signed up for Art was drafted into the Computer camp. So, there I was, being force-fed "computer programming as fun activity". And it was, actually. Very crude, just Basic on dinky little machines, I think I got it to draw a circle or something.

And then the next semester in Maths I, we were doing Maths programming. It was the only semester in Maths I where there was a choice of subject, but the other subject was one I'd already done in Maths II, so I had no choice. And I found I was good at it.

Then it was on to university, where I was certain I wanted to do Science, but I didn't know which particular field to major in. I started with a double major in Chemistry and Computer Science, because I'd liked them both in school, and thought it would be more useful than doing one or the other. But by the end of First Year, I realized that Comp. Sci. was a lot more fun than Chemistry -- it was the only subject (apart from English Creative Writing) where I actually liked doing the assignments. So I dropped the Chemistry and have never looked back since. 8-)