[Tutor] O.T.

[Jeff Shannon]

I'm 36, unmarried, male, and live in Seattle, Washington (USA).  I've 
dabbled with computers and programming on and off since junior high 
(around 1980), but have only gotten serious about it in the last 10 
years or so (almost entirely self-taught), and have only been employed 
in the field for about 5 years.  I had two years of college (nominally 
majoring in chemistry) at the University of Alaska (the state where I 
grew up) before dropping out, moving to Seattle, and frittering away 
my young adulthood. ;)

I work for a small company that does electronic payment processing and 
check management.  Our system is built around an old Pick database 
(ugh), and most of my programming is in Pick Proc (a 
shell-script-like, but truly horrible, language) and Pick's dialect of 
Basic (which is only 20 years out of date...).  As we're moving more 
towards integrating our server with desktop PCs, though, I've been 
able to use Python for a few projects, and I often use it for 
interactively exploring data files and doing sysadmin-type work.

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International