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The Eternal Noob and the Noob Ladder
(note to management, this is just a draft as I collect my thoughts for this article, it shouldn’t be published anytime soon)
I suppose that I’m getting a well-earned reputation for writing for and about noobs. This begs the question, am I, hartnell, a noob myself? Could I possibly suffer to wear this title? You betcha! I, before everyone in the FreeBASIC community, fully confess am a bona-fide, know-nothing, noob from the pits of noobiedom. And the thing is, I’ve been programming for over 20 years.
I’ve written numerous web games in Php. I’ve reinvented arcade classics from the ground up. I’ve documented programming languages. I fondly recall my VIC-20 and Tandy 1000 through tear stained eyes. And yet, I am a noob. Confused? Good. Let’s continue.
I am an eternal noob. I’ve just given you some of my accomplisments and I’ll tell you what - 3D mystifies me. Artificial intelligence rattles my brain. Microprocessor architecture makes it stop completely. For everything I know, theres tons more that I can’t yet comprehend.