As I have stated in several different forums, I started programming computers (software development) in the Summer of 1978 at the grand old age of 24 years old. I was very old for a junior at LaGrange College. My mother was also a late bloomer getting her psychology degree and teaching certificate at LaGrange College in 1959 or later. She was 40 years old in 1959 (born January 15, 1919). She had a two-year Alabama teaching certificate from Jacksonville State College (now University) which she attained in the late 1930s. My maternal grandmother also had an Alabama teaching certificate from I seem to recall the early 1900s or possibly 1905 to be exact. Back to me. My first computer language was Dayton and Data General’s interpretive language Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC). I taught myself the language and shared some of my “secrets” such as the MAT (Matrix) statements in BASIC to Professor Kenneth Cooper. Professor Cooper taught me more BASIC (Fall 1978), FORTRAN IV (Winter 1979), and Intel 8080 or 8085 assembly and machine language (Spring 1979). I then taught myself Nicklaus Wirth’s Pecan Pascal and Modula-2 in the Spring and summer of 1988. I taught myself Data General’s Pascal and macro-assembly language in the summer of 1979 plus later years (1990 – 1994). Professor Fay Adcock Riddle, PhD, etc. taught me C (early 1990s), COBOL (Rear Admiral Grace Hopper’s Common Business Oriented Language) I (Spring 1994). I learned C++ (1995+) and C# (2003+) on my own. At Auburn I was taught Java both the PC and micro handheld versions, C for the Palm Pilot, Common LISP, more C on Apple computers this time, Scheme, etc. I continue to write the Microsoft C family of computer languages (C, C++, C#).
Numerical Explorations 