Recently, I came to the realization that I’ve been writing computer programs in one form or another since I was about 6 or 7 years old.<\/p>\n
Along the way, I’ve had plenty of people to influence the way I think about code, and how I write it.\u00a0 Sure, there have been plenty of textbooks along the way too, but I want to give some thanks to the people <\/em>who have directly affected my abilities to do what I do.<\/p>\n And what better way of doing that then by listing them?<\/p>\n Anyhow, these are the people who come to mind.\u00a0 I might add to this list if I remember anyone else.<\/p>\n But in the mean time, for the people listed above:\u00a0 thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently, I came to the realization that I’ve been writing computer programs in one form or another since I was about 6 or 7 years old. Along the way, I’ve had plenty of people to influence the way I think about code, and how I write it.\u00a0 Sure, there have been plenty of textbooks along […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,44,68,110,6,10,162,79],"tags":[395,405,404,394,1205,393,419,409,416,184,411,426,408,392,406,237,420,239,425,421,422,407,401,427,424,423,402,399,410,417,413,414,415,132,397,398,396,418,157,403,400,412,67],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-internet","category-javascript","category-musings","category-personal","category-php","category-ruby-on-rails-technology","category-technology","tag-8088xt-ibm-clone","tag-angelo-mottola","tag-asvisn","tag-coding","tag-computer-science","tag-computers","tag-district-school-board-of-niagara","tag-doug-mcquiggan","tag-dr-jim-clarke","tag-dsbn","tag-ece","tag-greg-wilson","tag-groovy-concepts","tag-influences","tag-irc","tag-joel-beck","tag-jong-lee","tag-julian-rabideau","tag-karen-reid","tag-ken-pidgen","tag-ken-redekop","tag-lost","tag-marcade","tag-markus-project","tag-michael-langlois","tag-mila-shostak","tag-necrolyte","tag-neozones","tag-nick-braun","tag-prof-eric-hehner","tag-prof-james-mclean","tag-prof-john-carter","tag-prof-tarak-abdelrahman","tag-programming","tag-qb","tag-qb4-5","tag-quickbasic","tag-quote-notation","tag-rails","tag-t_s","tag-tek","tag-university-of-toronto","tag-uoft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prmTy-aK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3230,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/3230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A Chronological List of People Who Have Influenced My Coding<\/h2>\n
\n
\nJoel, Doug, our friend Julian and myself were also members of a band in highschool.\u00a0 It was my job to build and maintain the band website, and this is when I learned to write HTML, basic Perl, and simple JavaScript.<\/li>\n