I live in a diverse residential and commercial neighborhood of LaGrange, Georgia. I call 201 North Lewis Street apartment #6 home. The apartment complex is on the corner of West Haralson and North Lewis Streets. Location, location, location. The former Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) was across the street on West Haralson. The old VFW building is up for bidding through McKeen Reality. Kids Zone, a children’s mental health clinic, is in the old Zachry building at 200 North Lewis Street. There are at least two investment companies in the area and two banks one block and two blocks away. There are five churches within a several block radii of my studio apartment. The only negative aspect is that I must keep my music turned down and unfortunately, I currently don’t own headphones nor a portable music player such as smartphone and/or Apple IPOD.
Author: jamespatewilliamsjr
My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.
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