![]() ![]() Necessity had driven me to do more and more programming. There is a saying, ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’. It was done in Clipper Summer ’87 version. ![]() I had the reference of the source codes for the existing software. Having the knowledge of DBase III+ programming, I had started to write small utilities to take self configured reports from the existing tables. Only at that time, I had realized about the importance of Database programming. We could not create new reports according to the requirements and we had to play only with the old options. CLIPPER SUMMER 87 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALIn the year 1998, the computer professional who had programmed for the accounting, invoice processing and payroll processing for our business firm had gone for a better job. I had done some macro programming in Excel for introducing thousand’s comma according to Indian tradition. It was a Costing project in Excel with about 150 sheets, everything interlinked. I had so much of works before hand and I was involved in them for about 1 year. Even though it was easy to operate, I could not do any programming. CLIPPER SUMMER 87 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING WINDOWSI had studied under the DOS environment and I had got Windows ’95 in my new system as my operating environment. In the year 1997, I had purchased a computer on my own, and started implementing something which I had studied some seven years back. The reason was, at that time, computers (AT 386) were costlier and one cannot take the risk of losing precious data and computers were operated only by computer professionals. And, once I had finished this course in the year 1996, I joined my brother to manage our family business.Įven though there was a computer in our office, I was not allowed to touch that. After finishing my Under Graduation degree in the year 1993, I had joined Chartered Accountancy Course. I studied some basics about computers and languages like BASIC, Pascal, COBOL and an introduction to Lotus 1-2-3, Wordstar and dBase III Plus.Īfter that I had joined a college and my main subject was Commerce. We joined that course which was for six months, conducted on Saturdays and Sundays. ![]() Not to waste the exam holidays, one of my friends had asked me to accompany him for a part time computer course in a near by Polytechnic College. Once, the exams were over, it was time to join a College. I was studying +2 (12th and final year in school). I was a commerce student, studying in a 100+ years old school in my home town Sivakasi (famous for fireworks ), Tamilnadu, Southern part of India. It was in the year 1990, I had seen a computer, first time in my life. ![]()
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