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2002: had a course on C, and hated it because nobody told me what it was for.
2007: Picked C up agiain, for ARM development.
2008: After working on kernel space for nearly a year, and wrote some simple drivers for S3C2410 chip, I want a gui program in order to manipulate the driver with the touch screen of my handheld device. Qt was at that time the only thing I knew, so I tried some Qt code, and soon got confused by all the differences that C++ brought over C, that drove me to start my journey with C++.
2009: done same simple PHP code in a typical LAMP environment
2009: Asianux(the company I was working for at that time) made a decision to switch from its own system updater(axtu) to YUM, as at that time the only axtu developer in the company, I need to join YUM development, that's how I started to learn and use Python.
2002: My cusion Aric Zhou(now employee of IBM) was at that time studying in Tsinghua Unversity. I stayed in his dorm for a couple of weeks for my own business. One day I saw a big book on Java, and Aric told me if you try to learn this, you will feel the knowleadge is overwhelming, meaning so much you need to remeber. But I was not scared, I always am good at rembering things myslef... but anyway, I thing that's the first time I heard the name Java.
2005: Aric told me that he met James Gosling.
2008: attended a presentation by a smart teacher, teaching me how to draw a turtle with Java, I liked it, but that did not persuade me to start to learn this language.
2009: was told that Google Adriod was built with Java, and I got shocked, since I always tought Java as a scripting langauge is not fast enough for embedded use. But Google just did it, and solve some problems by maintaining their own branch of Java Libs.
2010.9: run helloWorld on my andriod cellphone, eclipse+ADT
2009: Used Emacs for 3 months, and thus learned a little bit of this, they do have great documents at gnu.org