So I have been reading this book, and I have really been enjoying the interviews it contains with some of the pioneer programmers of our days. One which was quite interesting was one of the main programmers of Netscape...He basically started programming at about 15 years old, dropped out of college but was still a successful programmer.
In chapter 2 the second interview is with an Google employee who began programming at about age 5 in BASIC. Throughout Middle School he was making graphical games for kids and selling them(talk about crazy)...In High School he was making about 10k-25k on his FreeVote engine programmed in CGI which would generate voting polls. He generated this revenue through ads on the FreeVote site...by college year he was contracting to do programming work as well as starting projects of his own. I cant remember the name and don't have the book on me to look it up, but it was called like LiveJournal. anyhow I was very impressed with the success stories this book contains this far, as it is very motivational to any programmer.
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