About the Author

Wesley Chun was initiated into the world of computing in high school. There he learned BASIC and 6502 Assembly on Commodore PET/CBM systems, Pascal on the Apple IIe, and FORTRAN on punch cards. He also helped the journalism department convert from typewriters to CP/M-based Osborne 1s running MicroPro WordStar and served as a student-instructor teaching BASIC programming to 4th, 5th, and 6th graders, and their parents.

Wesley then went on to the University of California, Berkeley, as a California Alumni Scholar. He nearly completed a triple major, finally graduating with an A.B. in applied math (computer science) and a minor in music (classical piano). While at Cal he coded in Pascal, Logo, and C. One of his summer internships ...

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