A question about HTC (the guy, not the company)

[kilz]

HiTech was a nick name given to me right out of collage.
HiTech

i remember that from a post about something about your screen name

[Banshee7]

Next step:  GRAMMAR!!!  WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! 








NOTE:  Not aimed toward HT.  Just other users. 

[RATTFINK]

First as  Note , the company is HiTech Creations, I am HiTech or HT, not HTC. HiTech was a nick name given to me right out of collage.

The simple fact is there is something in my brain that will not work backwards. I can view a word ,close my eyes and not be able to reproduce that word in 5 secs. This was always a huge obstacle for me, I have no idea if teaching spelling is still the same as it used to be, but the weekly 20 word test required a 5 AM wake up call, followed by 3 hours of practicing the 20 words. This volume of studying would get me a passing D in spelling. Even to day a simple words like "their" I can not ( in process) garrenty ( not found in spell checker) garennty, garanty , guaranty (that was a real write for me on how much it took to write "guaranty" correctly)  you if I spell correctly or not with out a spell checker. Many times I can look at a word, know it is spelled incorrectly and not be able to spell it correctly, or even get close enough for a spell checker.

Coding is not visual but is concepts. I can pull a concept out of my head that I thought of 5 years ago and point you to the file it is in. I can take a multistage algorithms and have it all in my head just waiting to be painted on the screen in seconds.

I have no idea how brains function , I just know that spelling will never be possible for me, and has nothing to do with attention to detail. The work of coding is paying attention to detail, the gift of coding is being able to juggle many concepts, structure them in your head in a way that as things grow, you can still have an index in your head to be able to retrieve the details at almost any time.

I have now been coding for 35 years, the first time I had access to a computer in 1974 and started coding (my first program was a simple game , teletype machine stored on paper punch tape) I knew I had found my work in life.

HiTech

Where did you go to collage at? 

[SunBat]

Brains are interesting and (no joke here) Hitech's lack of spelling ability is truly unique.  This game is also truly unique. It is quite possible that the very wiring in that brain that makes spelling impossible makes this game possible. I'm glad your spelling sucks.

[Strip]

Einstein couldnt tie his shoes.....

[Tr1gg22]

I read that thread estes brought up from the dead and somebody had a quote in there from HiTech.  The older guys know this better than I do, but before HTC got spell check on his browser or whatever, he had the absolute worst spelling I have ever seen.  My 7 year old can spell better.

Here's the question:  I assume that computer programming requires a great attention to detail; a misspelled word, command, variable, whatever will totally pork the code, right?  So how does a guy who spells so bad manage to write complex, precise computer code?   

edit:  this is a serious question, I've always wondered about this...

U NEED A JOB

[999000]

Nothing wrong with my brain and i still can't spell!
999000 <S>

[Vulcan]

Where did you go to collage at? 

I think HT was in a collage

[Heater]

First as  Note , the company is HiTech Creations, I am HiTech or HT, not HTC. HiTech was a nick name given to me right out of collage.

The simple fact is there is something in my brain that will not work backwards. I can view a word ,close my eyes and not be able to reproduce that word in 5 secs. This was always a huge obstacle for me, I have no idea if teaching spelling is still the same as it used to be, but the weekly 20 word test required a 5 AM wake up call, followed by 3 hours of practicing the 20 words. This volume of studying would get me a passing D in spelling. Even to day a simple words like "their" I can not ( in process) garrenty ( not found in spell checker) garennty, garanty , guaranty (that was a real write for me on how much it took to write "guaranty" correctly)  you if I spell correctly or not with out a spell checker. Many times I can look at a word, know it is spelled incorrectly and not be able to spell it correctly, or even get close enough for a spell checker.

Coding is not visual but is concepts. I can pull a concept out of my head that I thought of 5 years ago and point you to the file it is in. I can take a multistage algorithms and have it all in my head just waiting to be painted on the screen in seconds.

I have no idea how brains function , I just know that spelling will never be possible for me, and has nothing to do with attention to detail. The work of coding is paying attention to detail, the gift of coding is being able to juggle many concepts, structure them in your head in a way that as things grow, you can still have an index in your head to be able to retrieve the details at almost any time.

I have now been coding for 35 years, the first time I had access to a computer in 1974 and started coding (my first program was a simple game , teletype machine stored on paper punch tape) I knew I had found my work in life.

HiTech

And you are Still the Biggest PUTZ I know

[JimmyC]

dyslexia rules K.O.   
I often cannot spell words right but think if I get my point accross its all that counts
some people get really strungout by bad spelling...
I dont get it, cos I never could spell I dont care, as long as the message is fairly understandablr
job done
brains can be wired different. cant spell good at maths, good at spelling suck at maths..whatever, we all different  (thank god)
glad HT wired the way he is <S>
Jimmy   jummy jammy

[frank3]

Even to day a simple words like "their" I can not ( in process) garrenty ( not found in spell checker) garennty, garanty , guaranty (that was a real write for me on how much it took to write "guaranty" correctly)

Shouldn't it be guarantee?
(don't blaim my grammar, I'm Dutch!)

[Tilt]

My Daughter has dyslexia (word based) which caused her severe strife thru University until some targeted assistance became available.

She is now a fully qualified reception teacher and considered an expert in her field consulted through out the region.

20 years ago she would have been cast out as a poor speller who should never be allowed to teach.

dyslexia (word or numeric) is not a measure of intelligence............ its just different circuitry.

[bustr]

When I was in grade school I had number and word dyslexia. My mother taught me math by asking me how I saw numbers and writing down the equivalents I gave her. She then had me memorise my equivalents to her proper list. Eventualy it all went away or my brain adapted. I still say tickled pink --> pickled tink ......even though I can write it correctly.

I support servers and enterprise systems for a living. I have never been able to test easly for a MCSE or other certificates. I don't read then regurgitate very well. But give me the manuels or the Internet for a few minutes, I can install the hardware, install the OS, install the App, pull up the admin interface and support and trouble shoot everything. It's just another Internet tech search, manual, hardware and applications to my brain. Then, I can start speaking jargon and concepts about what I setup. Ive been able to teach myself anything since I was a teenager if I could place my hands on it and be left alone to work with it. The Internet is the biggest RTFM hardon in the history of the human race. It's the dyslexic male techi's job saver.

The adavantage of dyslexia is your brain will see vast seemingly unrelated parts of a problem as a single entity. This in turn makes solving the problem simple for the dyslexic but a hair pulling nightmare for anyone who wants the dyslexic to explaine in boring anal minutia every step from A to Z. The dyslexic sees it all as A and rarley can explain how the solution was reached. Most have the same story. I just sorta got a hold of it for a bit and suddenly I had the answer. I've known quite a few programers who were dyslexic as littel boys.

[PhantomBarron]

I see a new program being loaded from this posting

Select automatic disco
From AH
where player = 'toonces3'
and ,bbs posting = 'gramatical attack'

[LYNX]

I to am lysdexic 

I'm a 47 year old geeza so back when I was at school, late 60's threw the 70's dyslexia wasn't really recognised in the school place.   One was either classified as stupid or slow and I remember the ridicule  Mr Webb (junior school teacher 6 to 11 year olds) gave me almost daily for about a year.  Meant to go look him up after I left school but never did.  He's probably dead by now.  Infact in my final year at school a teacher asked me if I suffered from "word blindness".  An antiquated term for dyslexia.  I had never heard either term so asnwered ...no.

Oh man...what a pisser it is but what a releaf to know what it is.  Couldn't read properly untill I was about 15 / 16.  Even now I read slow.  My Mrs will have finished a 250 page book and I'll only be a little over 1/2 to 2/3 through. I often have to really focus on certain words.  And by focus I do mean look.  Kinda like zooming in to brake it down into sylabals.  Strange thing with print the larger the text the easier it is for me to read.  Thats always baffled me.  The plus side to not being able to read at the same speed as most is, I don't read those bill board ads.  There just pictures and colours on a board to me 

Really struggle with spelling and at one time I used to have to write to customers a lot and didn't want to look a total avacado.  A primary reason for getting a computer with spell checker.  I have less trouble spelling longer words but I often just use memory of how a word is spelt.  If that doesn't work then I'll ryhm to get it.  Yes...I've had a poem published      I have a real rod up me arse about spelling when writing in a proffesional capacity. 

Even today when roughing out a letter or speed writing I'll catch myself writing a "d" instead of a "b" or I'll start a word with the last letter ( nearly wrote tetter) of the first sylobal.

Parents

Dyslexic kids are very adept at hidding their problem.  Although schools are more switched on these days the earlier you can detect it the better for the child.  Kids can become intraverted or  over agressive.  Once they understand theres a problem it'll help to balance them.

P.S

Deliberatly didn't spell check this post