Bo Simonsen wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 BS> Hello Roy!

 BS> 16 Jun 03 20:01, you wrote to me:

 BS>> But it's not too late to start agian :) Mostly programming is
 BS>> like riding a bike.. maybe there is some functions you can't
 BS>> remember, but the basic structures and the logic, is on your mind
 BS>> anyway :)

 RT> I was at an employment agency today,  and they cut me loose on a
 RT> testing computer...

 BS> Oh, you are currenctly unenployed?

I saw you respond to Craig Healy over in the HAM echo -- they cut me loose
the same day he got it...

 RT> Basically I could pick what I wanted.  So one of the things I picked
 RT> involved c,  since I felt pretty good after looking at some code the
 RT> other day and basically understanding most of what I was looking at.

 BS> If you can understood basic program structures, and you can write
 BS> them by your self - you're a programmer :) All other stuff, is just
 BS> functions, whitch also use the basic structures.

Cool.

 RT> Some of the questions were pretty obstuse,  though,  and sure as heck
 RT> not the way I'd write stuff.  I don't think I did too badly overall.

 BS> That's good!

 RT> I did skip the second c programming thing I'd selected,  but that was
 RT> because of time considerations more than anything else.  :-)

 BS> Ok :)

Still,  you go for a programming _job_ and they want to see code,  in
nontrivial amounts,  or else they want to see work experience,  or they
want to see a degree,  none of which I have handy.  Maybe that's fixable, 
but not in the short term.

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