I didn’t really grow up using computers.  My dad bought a Mac so he could do work, and eventually he got my mom a mac so that she could do work too.  The extent of my early computer using was playing with KidPix, and writing papers.  These were OLD Macs.  They were still using the Motorola Processors.  My dad eventually bought a normal PC, and ran RedHat Linux on it.  My first computer was a Biostar with RedHat 6.  I installed Windows 98 so that I could play games.  I bought two more IBM PCs, but not together.  They were both so that I could play games.  I eventually stopped, because computer games become boring.  After that, my PC ran Fedora Linux.  Now I have a MacBook, and it is so much better than anything else I have ever used.

    At my high school I took some computer programming classes.  I guess I was pretty good, but we only ever covered web programming, Visual BASIC .NET and Java.  VB.NET is so horrible.  I remember that once we had a test and, Visual Studio crashed on me about 5 or 6 times.  I was even forced to reboot the computer.  Java is OK, but very slow and memory hungry.