So he ended up in New York, working for a struggling computer consulting firm, writing computer simulation models for DuPont.
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As a teenager, Richard Garriott spent hours huddled in his bedroom closet writing computer games.
Next stop: writing computer code during the daytime for a small robotics company, and driving a limo on nights and weekends to make some extra cash.
But he's learning that he can no longer play the same role that he did in the early days, when he spent most of his time writing computer code.
After his return, he got a business degree from the University of Baltimore, and in 1984 started a software company in his basement, writing the computer programs himself.
After writing his first computer program at age 13, Gates hasn't wavered in his mission to develop cutting-edge software with the potential to change the world.
He scrapped the ICT curriculum from last September and called on schools to use online resources to teach computing so that even 11-year-olds would be capable of writing simple 2D computer animations.
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Dr Bilham and Vinod Gaur, from the Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation in Bangalore, writing late last year in Current Science, said that until recently Indian seismological research has neglected a technique known as geodesy, which measures the strains accumulating in, and distorting the surfaces of, plates.
Enterprise software giants such as Oracle are writing applications around "grid computer" networks--i.e.
He's writing it on a laptop computer which he brought with him, but said he's not happy with it yet and might do some work on it this week.
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Phil Alexander, a computer technician, lets his hair down by writing songs and attending open-mike events.
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He is a self-taught computer hacker, amateur astronomer and reportedly enjoys writing code.
"I think the computer makes you more creative, " said writing teacher Linda Denstaedt.
Being a writer who makes his living off the writing of words which appear on computer screens, I would kind of like to see words stay for a while.
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Meals-on-wheels delivered his food, a friend helped him with shopping and he finished writing his first and only novel on the computer that talked to him as he wrote.
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The Web is fundamental to his business, says Arbiter, who notes that students might be writing an essay on one half of the computer screen and placing an order on the other.
Writing Secure Code notes that logging on to your computer as a member of the administrators group--with privileges to do anything to the computer, some of it downright nasty--is a bad idea, except when absolutely necessary.
Writing skills, general management experience, technical and computer skills, people smarts, and international experience or language skills are examples of skills with what we call high option value -- that is, they are transferable to a wide range of possible options.
The songwriter was just adhering to that old adage of "writing what you know, " having worked as a full-time computer programmer prior to giving the music world a go -- though, as he readily admits, he still keeps it real by coding for his own site.
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If my keyboard jams in the process of writing this chapter, you expect me to stop, go buy another keyboard, install it properly, and keep writing, all without ever telling you about a single boring detail regarding my computer problems.
Writing over at Wired, physics professor Rhett Allain takes out a set of trusty computer tools and tries to piece it all together.
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Wheeler, who has a degree in computer science from the University of Kansas, spent long nights in Huff's garage, writing a program that could search multiple police databases to find evidence of crimes committed by the same person.
Glasberg said a television network had obtained a copy of a novel Hatfill was writing -- about biological warfare -- that could have only come from the scientist's computer, which federal authorities have confiscated.
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