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that’s probably an exaggeration to say no bugs, but i’m very obsessive about it working right
i have a mobile app with about 1000 downloads and never had a bug report from google (anr’s application not responding)
also other desktop apps with literally tens of thousands of downloads and never had a report of bugs
but there probably are some.
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Hi @firemonkey.
Internet had emerged only in the late 1990, and computer was gaining its popularity only not long ago with tablets and phablets. It is therefore understandable the elderly have no contact or little experience in using computer.
Computer has become the toys for kids and their childhood. I respect and admire the elderly for their unique experience in today’s computer era.
I am getting there but the zimmer frame is still in the Amazon warehouse.
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Oh sorry… 
I tried to major in Computer Science in the late 90s. Back then, “apps” weren’t a thing then. Nowadays with the prevalence of portable devices they probably teach that now in the curriculum (of course, I’m sure they still have the regular hardcore stuff). I don’t even use cell phones or the like, so I’d be that much more behind if I ever tried to study again, which will never happen.
I think I notice they may have taken out Engineering Physics as a graduation requirement which may help a little as that seemed to be an extremely difficult class for most students. Still, programming/engineering traditionally very difficult for anybody and the difficult math courses are probably still required.
I graduated with a degree in CS if 1992. Unfortunately everything was changing at lightning speed back then: Windows was relatively new and C++ was replacing C and the WWW was just coming into the public eye. My skills were pretty much outmoded as soon as I graduated and I got sick with sz so cognitively I just couldn’t adapt to the changes fast enough. I did manage to get jobs doing embedded C and simple Oracle Reports but my brain was so frazzled that I never moved on to object oriented programming. There were even companies back then that were still hiring COBOL programmers which would have really sucked. Nowadays BASIC is more my speed 
My brother did much better: He had an undergrad degree from MIT and did LISP programming before he got sick. He was afraid of computers for awhile but eventually got back into it and taught himself to program in Windows C# and has been employed for the past 20 years or so. I think I was much sicker than he was and I just don’t have the IQ that he does (he scored 1580/1600 on his SATs and was valedictorian of his HS class)
I think the best programmers are pretty much self taught and are quite obsessed with it.
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Cool— Do you develop for both Androids and iOS? I am trying to figure out how to best port some of my Android apps to iOS.
BTW If you are interested in getting your feet wet at simple to somewhat sophisticated programming I highly recommend rfo-basic:
(The joke is that BASIC causes brain damage, but I find it great to use for brain-damaged people like me!)
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1600 on SAT is max score, right? That’s impressive. I’ve heard of LISP (Artificial Intelligence). I never could understand recursion, though.
I actually took a class on COBOL (after I changed majors to business-oriented programming or more database-type stuff). Nowadays, I doubt COBOL is taught at University anymore.
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1600-- I think that’s right… he did a perfect 800 Math and 780 on verbal. I think I did 750 Math and 690 verbal but that was on a second attempt and I think I lucked out that day with an easier test… my first SAT was like 1260.
I only scored 1010 on SAT and 1020 on second attempt.
You are probably a lot more versatile than I am… I worked way too hard in school and messed up my eyes probably from reading. Unfortunately there’s a lot of stuff I wish I could have learned to do in sports like swim, play basketball, ice skate, and ski. My coordination still is lousy.
I don’t know about that, but thanks.
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nar i’ve just coded on android, i don’t have a mac or even any apple devices.
if i wrote something that made enough money, i’d probably invest it on some kit for developing on ios, and porting my apps across.
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Although we share a similar disorder our skills differ just like anyone else’s. There’s nothing wrong with trying to do something like computer programming and it could get you a nice job if you are successful. But if you find that you are terrible at it change your goal. I think the majority of us are good at something.
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Individual developer are difficult to make money. You can made many apps to let all make some money, or one excellent app. This is my advice.
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I love programming, but I only have the experience of makinng android apps and math applications. I have started with c++ and have played with c, python, and now Java. I really like making web sites so there’s that.
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I find that writing code makes me happy, and satisfied. I recommend programming highly 
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I just want to test your knowledge of Apple ID.
I have an iPad sign-in with abc@biz.com, but recently I change the password for abc@biz.com as well as the e-mail address to xyz@biz.com.
Now the iPad keep receiving alerts to enter the password for abc@biz.com.
What would you do?