Lessons Learned — First Programming Job

Good things and bad things

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In my first real job as a programmer I learned much more than I have at any other time in my life. I was at the job for 2 1/2 years working on a flight control system for the Navy.

I learned (without help):

* Assembly language programming of the Motorola PDP-11 series of computers in RT-11. FYI: this was a CPU…