Computer Programming with Fletcher K.

I focus on three key areas to develop you as a coder inside: 1) Developing muscle-memory for writing good code. 2) Learning to work AWAY from a computer. 3) How to think about problems so they can be solved with code. I saw my first video game when I was about four or five years old, and from that very moment, I became obsessed with making games. I knew that, in order to make video games, you needed to learn to program-- so that's what I did. I took my first computer class in 1980, and continued taking classes until we actually had a computer at home, and then I started to teach myself programming by making my own text adventure games (pretty advanced stuff at the time!) By the time I was 17, I was teaching computer programming in BASIC and Logo at a day camp for kids, while in my free time I was working on a very ambitious multi-player online game. I taught myself C, and later, C++, and worked a bit with those languages-- I wrote some libraries for making games. At the same time, professionally, I was hired to be a Programmer/Analyst, where I worked in Informix 4GL (a SQL language that's probably long gone) in Unix, and Visual Basic on Windows. In recent years, I've gone back and re-upped my skills in C, C++, picked up Java and a bit of JavaScript, and even some other programming and scripting languages. Odds are, even if it's a language I've never worked with before, I can help you learn it!