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Hey everyone!
I’m a 17 (soon 18) year old boy from Sweden. My biggest interest in life (so far) is computers. Now, I don’t mean playing games and that sort of stuff, more like programming, developing and building. I recently started watching anime, and I love it. Although when I’m at the computer I always multitask. Watching a movie while chatting on IRC. Do programming while chatting/voicechatting with people etc. When I started watching anime I couldn’t do multitasking in the way I did before. There you have the seed to why I want to learn Japanese. It’s not the only reason, but that’s the first time I thought “Man, I wish I knew Japanese”.
Other reasons for learning Japanese is that I have this wish to go to Japan, and I feel that knowing some Japanese will be of use. Also, a lot of technology and odd games is released in Japanese only, and I want to take part of that. Also speaking Japanese will impress my friends :3
Anyway, I’m in the middle of a lesson and that lesson told me to introduce myself, and I want to get going.
See you around here?
(Btw, thanks for that awesome 50% off sale! I wouldn’t be able to afford it without it, cause I’m a poor student :P)
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MrOpposite.
Welcome. Computers were certainly good for me and allowed me to earn a good living and have a great teaching job for many years. My very best computer students were the ones that were self taught and forged ahead of any classes they had.
Hope your Japanese skills impress your friends. Mine think I’m a bit of an idiot but they thought that before I learned a handful of Japanese. O_o
Anyway get through the hiragana and things start to be a lot more fun.Yea, I already knew hiragana from before, so that part was quite easy :P
And yes, I’m virtually self-taught on computers aswell… (Not many HTML-classes are held for 9 year olds… which was when I started)
That means that I have quite a bit of experience with programming decpite my young age. (I started C++ when I was 11)It’s cool with other computer-geeks aswell, what do you do with computers?
Hey MrOpposite! Welcome to the forums. :) I think it’s awesome that you’re so interested in computers and have taught yourself so much. My husband did that as well but got derailed in college for a bit. Thankfully, when he quit college, he went back into computers and is now a Senior Engineer at a consulting company. He loves it! Stick with your passions!
Good luck with your studies!
~CassandraTo answer your question MrO., I taught computer science (programming, database, applications) at Penn State. I got my Comp Sci graduate degree in 1976 so after that I had to learn every new thing I needed on my own. I also had a graduate degree in mathematics in 1968 and taught mathematics and statistics there as well. Programming is a young person’s game! It’s very intense (as you know) and eventually grinds a person down which is why I don’t write programs any more.
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