On Mon, 2018-02-19 at 12:57 -0500, pmkellly@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi! > > My credentials are in electrical engineering and just before I retired > (almost three year ago) I was reading through the Intel spec's on the > latest chip sets ; as I needed to understand physical data flow > bottlenecks. From early childhood I was not only interested in > electronics, but in electronic computers. This stuff is something I do > because I really like it, not because it was my profession. > > I have programmed in many languages. There are several I only wrote one > program with just to explore the language. There are some examples > below. Sometimes I am still amazed by the number of new languages being > published. After I look them over though I laugh at the huge > similarities to the ones the pre-existed them. My first experience as a > student was with with Fortran and SPS on an old IBM 1620 I found “laying > around”. After that I wrote a fair amount of machine code (hex) and some > BAL for IBM 360. After I was working and microprocessors became > available, there weren't any programmers around for them; so the > electrical engineers who implemented the processors in hardware also > wrote the software. A fact I was very happy about. I wrote hex code for > the Motorola 6800 and later I did a little for the 68000. I also wrote a > fair amount of code in Pascal on a VAX computer. Pascal was all they had > on that machine and they didn't want to buy another license. > > Later when PCs became available in a form similar to those commonly in > use today, I wrote useful code in Smalltalk, Lisp, Java. The first two > were connected to an AI project I worked on. The Java was control code > for a mechanism not for web pages. In the 1980s I was sent by one of the > companies I worked for to take C classes. I took all classes, but then > the project was canceled; so I never had a chance to use it. Things I > learned in the C classes, like the ease with which memory leaks were > created, lead be to have a strong aversion for it . I never pursued C > after that. > > Since I abandon Windows, about F16 ago, and started using Fedora, I've > been writing in Python. I've always held the opinion that code should be > well organized and easy to follow. After I wrote my first thousand lines > of python I went and got the style guide and found to my satisfaction > that my code, with one exception was compliant. I've never taken classes > in Python; so I won't present myself as being ready to start writing > Python for Fedora. Though I just purchased a course from the Teaching > Company that uses Python for all the code work. I haven't started it yet > so I can say more about it. I suspect most of the people writing Python for Fedora haven't taken any classes in it! (I certainly haven't; I'm a proud graduate of the University of StackOverflow...) > My tiny contributions to Fedora so far has been running the canned > regression tests on Linux. I got a FAS account so I could submit the > results, but since I haven't joined a group yet that was about all I > could do. As I was think further about it it seemed like testing would > be a good place to start. Hi there, and welcome! Great to have you on board. Unfortunately it seems your FAS account is not under this same email address and I couldn't find a similar one in the list of people waiting to join qa, so I can't add you to the group yet. Could you let us know your FAS ID so I can add you to the group? Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
