Changes Jim Gindin earned a Masters degree in Journalism from the University of Michigan, but eventually decided that it wouldn't be his long-term career path. So, just a few months after finishing graduate school, I was back in the classroom. I had always considered my home computer just a hobby, but the programming field was exploding. After two years of mainly computer and math classes, I was able to add computer science to my initial double-major of English and economics. For the next seven years, Gindin worked for IBM and other programming houses.
Programming is very thought-intensive, requiring long periods of intense concentration.
I seem to be particularly susceptible to office noise. So I found myself slacking off to dreamland more often than not. Not meeting my expectations. Gindin had always been a computer game enthusiast, and had even sold three games to a company that marketed a 16K computer called the Interact. In terms of sheer code, let alone graphics support, The College Years is already about 600 times larger than the maximum possible program written on that computer.