I often say that as a starting point to establish my background but I follow it up with: in my teens I wrote shareware games for pocket money, I did comp-sci for 3 years at high school and after school did I a 3 year course in IT. And now I have been doing commercial software development for nearly 18 years.
The advantage of starting early of course was that I looked like a boy genius when I first started working in the industry but actually I just had, had more experience then my peers and I have always been able to stay ahead of the curve ssince then :-)
Scarily this all means that I have been coding almost daily for 30 years which is conservatively is more then 35000 hours...
The advantage of starting early of course was that I looked like a boy genius when I first started working in the industry but actually I just had, had more experience then my peers and I have always been able to stay ahead of the curve ssince then :-)
Scarily this all means that I have been coding almost daily for 30 years which is conservatively is more then 35000 hours...