2015 Election: Tim Cerino

Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

On the first day of my first programming job, my boss handed me 700 lines of spaghetti code written in PL/1 and asked me to "fix it." On paper, I was a Research Assistant at an Economic Policy think-tank. I had taken a few Computer Science classes and had coded for fun as a kid and in college. But at that moment I felt that I had entered the world of "real" coding. (Ultimately the "fix" was to completely discard the code and redo everything using proper testable modular code, but I digress...)

Tim Cerino on The Carpentries

2015 Election: Tim Cerino