1/4/2023 0 Comments Calmira windows 7How did you find apartments in, say, France? What happens when you step off the plane and try to begin a new life, that first 24 hours? I couldn’t picture it. I also remember how, and older than a teenager, I could not understand how to move overseas (I had-and could not get, no matter how I imagined-no picture of how it worked, what daily life would be. Something had changed in my ability to create mental models. I remember the first time I ‘understood’ object-oriented programming (before, I had written largely procedural programs passing structures/records): this was not just understanding it, but with that step opened up a vista of other concepts I now had the ability or the mental toolkit to understand. They are situations where you lack some key knowledge or insight or ability to conceptualise that prevents you understanding and visualising a concrete idea, and at some moment, this changes and not only do you understand something you did not before, but you also become more capable of abstract and conceptual thought in areas you were not. We use phrases like ‘it just clicked’ to describe this, but I’m not describing a moment where you just understand something you didn’t before, but a deeper change in your thought model. And that something was called Calmira.Īll through life, but especially as a teenager or young adult, you have moments where you find can you conceptualise something you could not before. Something different happened with Delphi. At twelve, I hadn’t really understood what was possible in terms of creating ‘real’ applications. I’d write DOS programs that changed the console colour, or experimented with graphics, or make a game, or a password entry on boot. Until then, my programming had been for fun, and mostly to customise my computer. On the DOS machines I used Turbo Pascal, and then one day my father came home with a copy of Delphi. Apparently I loved it so much they were concerned and hid it away until I was about eight or nine, and after programming with that for a couple of years I got a series of secondhand PCs, 386es and 486es, on which I installed DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows NT 4 eventually, and more. I’d loved programming since I first encountered a computer: when I was much younger, about four, my parents bought a BBC microcomputer. Yes, this is really Windows 3.1 - and it’s all due to Delphi.
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