About the Author
Wesley Chun was initiated into the world of computing during high school, using BASIC and 6502 assembly on Commodore systems. This was followed by Pascal on the Apple IIe, and then ForTran on punch cards. It was the last of these that made him a careful/cautious developer, because sending the deck out to the school district’s mainframe and getting the results was a one-week round-trip process. Wesley also converted the journalism class from typewriters to Osborne 1 CP/M computers. He got his first paying job as a student-instructor teaching BASIC programming to fourth, fifth, and sixth graders and their parents.
After high school, Wesley went to University of California at Berkeley as a California Alumni Scholar. He graduated ...
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