When I was about 8 years old, I learned I could program our Texas Instruments Computer. I grew up in the
mountains, and in that area in the 80's there was very little available to an 8 year old for programming
references. I found an Apple Basic printout of a program a teacher threw away, and guessed from that how
to program the Texas Instruments Computer. Later I got a Tandy 1000HX Computer which was an 8086 based
computer. It had GW-BASIC and Quick Basic on it. I used the built in help to learn to program with it.
Resources became more available and I was able to buy a book on Graphics and Sound. It was all in BASIC.
I then bought Turbo C++ and a book on that, and I self taught myself that. When I got to high school I
went half and half on buying a modern computer. I got a Tandy Sensation! With this computer I was able to
program video games. I was inspired by Nintendo and Sega originally. Back in 1986 I fell in love with Nintendo,
but I always thought I could make better games than what were available. That is why I started trying to program
The Texas Instruments computer our family had.
I decided to go to Mesa State College, where I got a BSCS. Unfortunately I graduated when the tech industry
began to collapse, and the feild of Computer Science became saturated. I decided to write my own program and
sell it. I wrote Pirates of the Grand Mystics using the Torque Game Engine, and C++.
Since then I have written a few utilities for some companies I worked for, and have many unfinished projects.
Some programming languages I have used are:
C/C++
Pascal/Delphi
Common LISP
Prolog
Java
PHP
HTML/HTML5
MySQL/Access/Base
BASIC
x86 Assembly
If you are interested in hiring me for a project, contact me My rates will vary
depending on the project, but rates start at $25 per hour.