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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: From Felix Computer Over Transylvania JUG to CodeBuild
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Gabriel Pop (@vwggolf3) about:
Romanian communist-era Felix HC91 computer with Z80 processor and 64KB RAM,
learning programming through Basic and cassette tape storage,
attending specialized informatics high school class in northern Romania,
teachers from former communist computing center,
learning Pascal and building word-guessing game for graduation project,
pressure and competitiveness in academic environment,
entering Cluj-Napoca Technical University computer science program as second-ranked student,
studying in English-taught program,
learning Java through Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java book,
working as Java developer during university using German method names for Frankfurt-based company,
using Struts framework with Hibernate and...