One year later we got a computer that lived up to its name. It was a PC that was 386dx, 66 mhz, 320 meg hard drive, and 8 megs of memory. This when I saw Qbasic for the first time. It was amazing. This is when I really got into programming. The online help was very useful. For 2 years I didn't understand the DIM statement, I kept coming back to dimming the screen. I don't really remember when I understood it, I am just glad that I finally did get it.

About 2 years after I was first introduced to programming I really got into it. The thought of making it do exactly what I wanted it to do was amazing to me.

One year later my dad and I split Visual Basic 4.0 Standard Edition. This was helpful in learning about how Windows applications work. I was never commited to making an application, but the thought was fine for me.

I was browsing the help file day and saw a command I had never seen before "FloodFill". I used that same command while playing around. It never worked. This was one of the most frustrating moments, but a while later I found my answer. After that I tested many dll functions. I felt in control. I crave it. "It was endless," I thought to myself.

About a year later I was talking to my aunt Sherri, and she was telling me about the jobs I could get and how most people don't know half of what I know. I was nodding my head until she said something about getting Visual C++. Since i've seen C before I thought, "it looks simple enough." Months later I bought Ver 4.0 Std Ed. I was opening the sample files and I realized that I don't know how to program in C. I could of thought, down goes $100 in the toilet, but I didn't. I don't like many challenges, but when it comes to computers sign me up. This gave me the whole scoop on how Windows operates. I am still struggling with OLE, only because I havn't gotten into it.

This got me into trouble many times, but I never learned. Watching my sister on our computer she is nervous about touching the mouse. Some people ask why, I ask why not. Yes I get in trouble, but I just learned one more thing. I've learned many things that way!

I was looking through the appendix of the BASICA reference manual, and saw something about assembly language. I looked it up on the internet, and sure enough I found gobs of information. So now I write beginner assembly with debug.exe and a86.com also. What I fell in love with was the speed and the lack of the junk. This way I can have total control(there it is again) of the computer.

My first program that I am proud of is a program that plays a note into the midi channel. You can change all the settings. Took me about a week to write in VC++ 4.0. I don't like writing big programs because I never know what I want.

This is my first web page, and already I want to write CGI scripts. Surprise! Surprise!

I am not sure what career I want, but I know it is something where I work on computers.