About How to Program

• has a BSc (Hons) 2.1 degree in Computer Science (Aston University, Birmingham 1985-1989), a course which was heavy on the programming, where one of the final year courses was to create a C compiler in Pascal!
• has been developing software (DOS, Windows, database, multimedia, city finance, 3D PC games, 3D mobile phone games, business web development) since the early eighties
• has gone from permanent employment, through to contracting for banks in the city (e.g. merchant banks), to founding in 1998 his own interactive software company Abstract Worlds Ltd
• has experience in a number of languages, including the following programming languages: C, C++, VB, Java, JavaScript, ActionScript, C#, PHP, database languages: MS SQLServer, MySQL, and page description languages: HTML, CSS
• in 1999 working as a contractor for a merchant bank in the city, designed and developed a risk management system in VB, ASP, MS SQLServer to manage a £4 billion portfolio
• in 2000 developed in his company a 3D asteroids game which the world's first 3D accerelated first person shooter action game in VB (and C++)
• developed in his company in 2002 the world's first 3D first person mobile phone game which ran on most Java mobile phones, a 100 level 3D game with its own 3D engine, weighing in at less than 32K in size!
• in 2006 developed in his company a sitebuilder system in PHP, JavaScript and MySQL, which is a website which designs and creates other websites (this site uses this sitebuilder)