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Originally Posted by Loial
Some very interesting stories from some of you. I'm sorry to hear that life has somewhat got in the way though.
The thing that stopped me pursuing computing for further at high school was I found programming boring. I think we just did some basic stuff in Visual Basic, although it's so long ago I can barely remember. I have a feeling the real problem was that it was just too easy for me at that level & I didn't have the bug to see what it could lead to.
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Yeah, the computing problems you tend to get in school tend to be pretty easy and not very interesting. Still, I took a year of Basic back in the 80s because the professor made up his own assignments which were fun. (Plus, he was an engineer who was a refugee from U.S. Department of Defense labs, and he was a real hoot.
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I didn't really get back into programming until the mid-90s when I started working in research and was programming aps to solve real problems we had with managing these really long-term studies (decades long) with huge amounts of data. (Academics aren't known for their organization skills--a stereo-type, but a true one.) I enjoyed the work, but dealing with the professors kind of sucked because they don't like it when you know things they don't, such as how to program computers.
Besides the programming, the other upside was I got to participate in a number of these really cool studies about subjects I wouldn't have known much of anything about otherwise.
--Ceara1010