A few months afterward I was getting ready for my transition from my 20GB HD iMac to my new PowerBook 1.33 GHz G4 (what I’m using now), and realized I didn’t have an easy way to get the music from my iPod (since it wasn’t all on my iMac) to my new laptop. I started Cashbox because I didn’t feel like paying for Quicken and there were no good, cheap alternatives. That got boring quickly, though, since I had already learned the stuff, so I went back to objective-C and learning more about cocoa. I stopped objective-C for a while as I got ready for the C++ class I took my senior year of high school. My iColors application is the result of the objective-C I learned that summer. I then borrowed a C++ book from a friend and learned it over a summer, learned objective-C while doing that, too, and a little cocoa. CGI didn’t go well since I still hadn’t learned C, but I learned a lot of PHP. When I got bored, I set up my own web server on my computer so that I could start learning PHP and CGI. When OS X rolled along, learning what was going on in that kept my interest for a while. Got a new iMac 500MHz G3 Blueberry (this was around my freshman year of high-school). It was probably about 2 years that I didn’t really do much after that. Trust me.Īnyway, I kind of didn’t do much code wise for a while in there. I think both have better tutorials online now, but 7 years ago it wasn’t possible to learn from that stuff. Just as a tip: if you’re ever going to try to learn C, don’t try to learn from online tutorials when the internet still hasn’t gotten into full swing. Throughout this time I tried to learn C, but was incredibly unsuccessful. I guess you could call this the beginning of my mac programming, because I refused to create any web pages that didn’t work on macs as well as windows machines. It’s actually been by looking at code at different sites that I’ve learned most HTML and JavaScript. I started to learn HTML and JavaScript via Webmonkey’s online tutorials. How was my computer showing me all of this information? What was it that people did to make that image change when my mouse went over it? This computer had internet access!Īfter getting over the excitement of the internet and surfing, my curiosity started to get to me. This is when I really started getting interested in computers. My family got a strawberry 233 MHz G3 iMac (remember those?) for me and my sister to share (when I was in 5th grade, I think). That wasn’t all that exciting, though, because I didn’t have that much time on his computer to look around.Įventually, as the internet grew, the old OS 7 mac was too out of date. I learned some things on this computer, but when my dad got a laptop through work that had internet access, I forced myself to cross over to the dark side of windows for a while, and play around with the internet. I tinkered with a lot of stuff on that computer, trying to figure out what that “System Folder” was and what all of the stuff in it did. There were a couple of games on the computer that crashed the computer a lot, and I always wondered why. It wasn’t all that nice of a computer, but it’s probably when I started getting into how computers worked. That was my last non-mac computer.įor a few years we had an old mac running OS 7 or something like that (until I was in 5th grade, I think). It had word processing capabilities and you could play Jeopardy if you had the 6 1/4 floppy and typed in a good number of commands at the command prompt. Whitney: The first computer I ever worked with was an IBM. Nemo: What is your history as Mac person and programmer?
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