i assume most of the books you're reading these days since you're a student have to do with studies
yeah yeah that's about all i get a chance for between that and um uh Bible study as often as i can that's about the bulk of it
the uh
not a whole lot of chances otherwise
what year are you in in computer science
okay um officially a junior right now um
yeah and so the course work you're doing is what
well right now i'm taking a a uh my fourth semester of of electronics dealing mostly with uh uh MOSFET and JFET transistors
i thought you said computer science was your major
and
well okay they they're are gonna uh computer engineering
oh computer engineering okay that's yeah okay
okay i am getting some programming right right now i'm taking my first semester in in
well
no no i actually i'm an engineer by training and uh i it is my impression that's easier for an engineer to learn about computers than it is for a computer science person to learn about computers
yeah yeah well with this well they classify it as computer engineering technology so i'm getting a fair amount of programming as well as electronics
yeah
um-hum
right so who's books do you use for programming
uh it depends on which language they're working with um
well tell me what language we're taking these days
right now i'm taking C i've got three semesters in Pascal behind me
taking C okay is that just standard C or C plus plus
uh that we're working with what what they called standard uh ANSI C
yes right um-hum
um i'm not real sure what the difference is gonna be between C and C
well C plus plus is object oriented and there is uh quite a bit of difference and it quite often has you need a book up front to tell you about uh precompiling and that sort of thing and then it normally does a little shuffle up front
yeah
um-hum
and then runs on ANSI C or some other similar dialect of C so it does uh some preprocessing to begin with who's book do you use in Pascal
okay well what we're working with is
uh i don't remember the author's name
well how we going to talk about books well maybe we better switch to pleasure then uh what do you read for pleasure
used to be i read a good deal of uh science fiction
so Isaac Asimov for example
um Asimov um Clark uh
yeah Arthur Clark
there's uh
the big one was Asimov his he's his stuff was easiest to find
yeah yeah
what got me started in the first place was uh my brother-in-law gave me a set the uh um Foundation Trilogy
oh yeah that's fantastic
back junior a year and a when i was a in in junior high school he gave it to me
oh yeah it's hard to put down those
oh yeah and he's come up with what three more books
have you ever read Asimov's I Robot
uh parts of it i got three parts of it
i tell you that that is hilarious some parts of that you know the the one i
yeah yeah wait a minute matter of fact i did read i i Robot
i have actually gone back and is is long enough that was the first science fiction book i ever read was I Robot
I Robot yeah that's pretty light reading for science fiction those kind of things
and it
and it was so good i went back and read it again because Asimov knows how to string things together you know
yes he does well the uh Foundation Trilogy is directly connected to I Robot
yeah oh yeah right
as a matter of fact his last book Foundation and Earth
um-hum um-hum
they made the finally made the connection
uh
that uh
um leader robot whatever his i don't remember his name now
i can't remember the name either but
anyway he's still going in the Foundation at the uh in Foundation and Earth they meet up with him
uh
huh
i'll be darned
he's on a base on the moon and somehow or another earth has been so utterly polluted with uh uh uh radioactive fallout that it's utterly inhabitable uninhabitable even though it's been several million years
right
oh yeah
uh several hundred thousand years anyway
yeah
so it's it's utterly uninhabitable
well while i was working i got enough i read on the job a lot of course just like a student does because you're learning all the time in research so i read
oh yeah
yeah
i uh
started uh long enough ago that uh vacuum tubes were still in business when i was a young engineer you know so i had to continually upgrade my education and
yeah
that was really good for me because that's what i'd like to do anyway i'd like to be a permanent student you know so uh
yeah
yeah yeah well i i got started on student late
i was thirty three when i started to college for the first time
yeah so you knew what you wanted to do yeah yeah
oh yeah yeah i'd i'd been an auto mechanic for twenty years
right
started about twelve years old for my father but uh decided you know i i had a pretty good idea that wasn't what i wanted to do any more
yeah
yeah
have you been in the military at all
no didn't go through military um
oh
so probably so probably the things that i enjoy reading relative to military you would enjoy The Web Web Griffin stuff uh which uh has to do with the military and other right wing things
uh
uh not familiar with it
