{"id":1859,"date":"2016-02-19T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2016-02-19T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T23:46:08","slug":"the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2016\/02\/19\/the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"The beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is a little long-winded, so please bear with me.<\/p>\n<p>The book you see here is the text from the first hard-core programming course I took in college. The class was taught by Prof. Alva Couch, a great teacher who got me started in the right direction toward my career.<\/p>\n<p>One of my office&#8217;s summer interns from last year is a Tufts student, and has continued working on the intern project\u00a0part-time for us during the school year. He&#8217;s taking a course with Couch this semester that is highly relevant to the intern project.<\/p>\n<p>This is all a long-winded way of saying that I had a video conference with Prof. Couch today. I was hugely flattered that he remembered me, 28 years after that first course.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1860\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/02\/DCL_4264-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"DCL_4264\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/02\/DCL_4264-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/02\/DCL_4264-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/02\/DCL_4264-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/02\/DCL_4264-1600x1063.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is a little long-winded, so please bear with me. The book you see here is the text from the first hard-core programming course I took in college. The class was taught by Prof. Alva Couch, a great teacher who got me started in the right direction toward my career. One of my office&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2016\/02\/19\/the-beginning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The beginning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}