Why a Computer Science College?
I didn’t set out to go to a computer science college. I was a biology major. If you’d asked my what my interests were or what I wanted to do, that’s what I would have told you. Computers were just outside of my area of interest. One of the things about Biology, of course, is that unless you specialize in the more technical areas your job prospects aren’t so hot. You’ll probably start out cleaning the lab. But ya know, I was optimistic and young and didn’t have a clue. I learned about computing when my parents picked up an atari computer with a BASIC cartridge. I spent the whole summer learning something about programming. I was never good at it, but I learned the basics (pun intended.) By the way, this was back before floppy drives were generally available. Programs had to be saved on cassette tapes. Clunky, awkward, and unreliable. Our first floppy drive for that thing cost something like $300! So when I went back to school I took a programming course, in Pascal, and had a blast. Pasc
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