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<title>Project: Sooz's Coding Blog</title>
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<h1>Sooz's blog</h1>
<h3>Contents</h3>
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<li><a href= "early-days">Early coding days?</a></li>
<li> <a href="basic">The BASIC days...</a></li>
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<h2 id="early-days">Early coding days</h2>
<p><a img src="http://www.theoldrobots.com/images40/tasman8.JPG" alt="image of an early robot, dome shaped with small wheels and markers in it's center to draw shapes"height="150px"></a>When I was four years old, my father brought home a programmable turtle robot. It could draw different shapes in different colors using different color markers in it's belly.<br>
My father told me that if I wanted to tell the turtle to draw I had to learn it's own language, LOGO. <br><br>
So I did, because I really wanted it to draw giant shapes for me on the large butcher paper my dad had laid out in the kitchen (<strong>it could draw shapes better than me!</strong>).</p>
<p>Little did I know this would lead to more coding in future days...but not more turtles!
<a img src="http://tammanywest.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/turtle.jpg" alt="image of pet box turtle" height="150px"></a>
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<h2 id="basic">The BASIC days...</h2>
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In high school, had a lot of free time on my hands, so I was always taking<em> "extra"</em> classes. One of those <em>"extra" </em>classes was computer programming (this was in the early,<em> early </em>90's).
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At that time computer programming meant learning the BASIC programming language. Learning that language, I built a mortgage calculator for my final project. (Not <em>exactly</em> high school interests, but definitely my teacher's!)
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And, unbeknownst to me, on the horizon would be Excel pivot tables and Access databases. But that excitement is for next time!
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