Software Engineering
I have been a programmer / software engineer for nearly three decades… since back in the days of punched tape and punch cards, the late '70s. I began in 1976 with college courses on BASIC, Fortran, and APL. As an undergrad, I wrote programs (in all three languages) for the Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science Departments at the University of Louisville. As a graduate student at Colorado State University, I developed programs in Fortran and actually wrote some of the earliest code for processing geostationary weather satellite imagery and analyzing it on special purpose hardware developed by the Electrical Engineering department at CSU. I gradually became more interested (professionally) in computer programming, particularly the up and coming field of image processing. I attended (thanks to CSU) a couple of the early SIGGRAPH conferences, and decided to leave atmospheric science and pursue the fields of computer graphics and image processing in the "real" world.
I spent many years developing software mostly in C, and have spent the last few years developing software in C++.
Since my biological memory is quite unreliable, and I get a bit annoyed trying to figure out something I know I figured out before, this section of AWCfamily.com is my memory for all things related to Software Engineering.
WARNING: you cannot get any geekier than the stuff in this section 
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