My view on technology

As we were on a Computer related career, many classes required from us to develop a computer system. The most common language for development was FoxPro . Sometimes for graphical applications we used Visual Basic , but only for easy projects; I started using it from version 3. At that time MSDOS was the most common Operating System , but graphical applications were starting to get used.

At college we had 4 courses for development, those where more focused for us to had Language knowledge. Those classes were Pascal , GW-BASIC , COBOL and FoxPro , in that order. Programming Logic was an issue in those times as classes where focus to the language and not to the logic; also, not all of us had a computer at home, so, we had to visit the Lab for computer time. Time might not be too expensive, but availability was another issue. At Pascal course, I had some problems with coding as I as to create big programs, most of them long IF Statements and the following of my core was hard to other persons, I took little attention to this issue until tow more courses. In a midterm exam, my teacher, Engineer Diana Margarita (Diana Margarita is guilty of my carrer), gave me a low grade for my code, I had to type it in the PC and show her the result to reconsider my grade. Second course was GW-BASI, this course was given by Engineer Danilo, he had a “different” way to teach, but was ...