Louisville, KY
Greg is a retired neurologist in Louisville, Kentucky, with a long-standing interest in computers and programming, beginning with Fortran IV in the 1960s. When Linux and open source software came along, it kindled a commitment to learning more, and eventually contributing. He is a member of the Scribus Team.
Authored Comments
Maybe we should make it the official poem of opensource.com:
Failure is your friend,
As long as you persevere
To make some positive end.
When I'm working on some programming language, I'm not doing it by creating some game. Knowing how to input information and print out some result is good, but on a practical level I usually need to be able to open some file, get the information from it, then find something in it, perhaps edit it, then save the original or some new file.
You save a lot of time by searching out small programs you can find somewhere, whether it's in a book or on the web, then modifying them to learn what breaks them, then how to unbreak them. Failure is your friend, as long as you persevere to some positive end. (Hmm, that's almost like a fragment of a poem)