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I learn best by doing; every one of my top skills was acquired either on the job or through independent work. | I learn best by doing; every one of my top skills was acquired either on the job (Brown U., [[Carrier Transicold]], Duke U.) or through independent work. | ||
I had no prior experience with any of the following, at the time I first started using them, except where noted: | I had no prior experience with any of the following, at the time I first started using them, except where noted: | ||
* | * '''Apache''' (for independent use) | ||
* '''Borland Pascal''' (for Brown U.) - I took a course in Pascal at Duke in 1977, but it used punch cards and was not really applicable to Turbo/Borland Pascal | |||
* | * '''C++''' (for Duke U.) | ||
* '''CSS''' (for independent use) | |||
* '''FORTRAN IV/77''' (for Brown U.) - I took one class in "Fortran for Engineering" at Duke circa 1983 | |||
* '''HTML''' (for independent use, later used for paid consulting work) | |||
* '''Linux''' (as a desktop OS and for web projects) - learned some of the CLI from the owner of my ISP in Athens | |||
* '''MS Access 97''' (for Carrier) - first time using a relational database | |||
* | * '''MySQL''' (for independent use) - applied what I had learned about SQL from MS Access and Microsoft SQL Server at Carrier | ||
* HTML (for independent use, later used for paid consulting work) | * '''Perl''' (for independent use) - my first language for interactive web pages | ||
* | * '''PHP''' (for independent use) - originally tried a very early flavor (v1?) but found it inadequate. Returned to it when OOP was introuced (v4?) | ||
* '''{{l/wp|Transact-SQL}}''' (for Carrier) - this is the flavor of SQL used by MS SQL Server | |||
* '''Visual Basic 6''' (for Carrier) | |||
''see also: [[education]]'' | |||
Latest revision as of 18:13, 19 January 2021
I learn best by doing; every one of my top skills was acquired either on the job (Brown U., Carrier Transicold, Duke U.) or through independent work.
I had no prior experience with any of the following, at the time I first started using them, except where noted:
- Apache (for independent use)
- Borland Pascal (for Brown U.) - I took a course in Pascal at Duke in 1977, but it used punch cards and was not really applicable to Turbo/Borland Pascal
- C++ (for Duke U.)
- CSS (for independent use)
- FORTRAN IV/77 (for Brown U.) - I took one class in "Fortran for Engineering" at Duke circa 1983
- HTML (for independent use, later used for paid consulting work)
- Linux (as a desktop OS and for web projects) - learned some of the CLI from the owner of my ISP in Athens
- MS Access 97 (for Carrier) - first time using a relational database
- MySQL (for independent use) - applied what I had learned about SQL from MS Access and Microsoft SQL Server at Carrier
- Perl (for independent use) - my first language for interactive web pages
- PHP (for independent use) - originally tried a very early flavor (v1?) but found it inadequate. Returned to it when OOP was introuced (v4?)
- Transact-SQL (for Carrier) - this is the flavor of SQL used by MS SQL Server
- Visual Basic 6 (for Carrier)
see also: education