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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matt McIrvin" data-source="post: 15334" data-attributes="member: 590">I'm a professional coder; my career path has been pretty odd.  I programmed as a hobby as a kid, and went from there via the high-school science-fair circuit to a summer job in the late 1980s writing visualization code for scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.But I wanted to be a particle physicist, or at least to learn particle physics, and I studied that and got my Ph.D.  Toward the end I realized that competing for scarce academic jobs in that straitened environment was probably not for me, and when I got out I activated my backup career in computer graphics.I worked in laser printers for a while, writing graphics code for page description languages, mostly in C.  After 6 1/2 years doing that, I switched to mobile phone OS programming in varying mixtures of Java, C, C++ and C#, working for a variety of companies.  These days I'm working with Android tablet apps.  I love writing code that runs in things, and that has results you can see; there's a viscerally appealing quality to it.  Somehow I never quite have complete faith that my code is doing anything until I see a graphical display.I'm not sure exactly how this connects to pinball, except that obviously pinball has appeal for a student of physics, and for someone who likes gadgets where software collides with the physical world.  As stated elsewhere, I actually got into pinball while goofing off when I was a graduate student.</blockquote>

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