Preface
In 1980, after being married for just a few months, I purchased my first computer. Why? Because at the age of 26, I thought it could be the best toy I could ever own. It was an Apple ][+. Within days of its arrival, I became obsessed with it. In the late 70s and early 80s, numerous magazines were dedicated to the new realm of personal computers and I bought most of them. I’d come home from work when I was a photography technician at Dawson College and typed in any program I could find. Three years later, I left Dawson and struck out on my own programming professionally, and seven years after that, I became a college instructor in computer science at Dawson College.
I mention this story because computer programming changed my life. Every ...
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