• Question: Did you imagine becoming a computer scientist when you were 16-17?

    Asked by Oscar S on 9 Jul 2025.
    • Photo: Marcus Davage

      Marcus Davage answered on 9 Jul 2025:

      I fell in love with computing at 15, when I had a Dragon 32 computer. I taught myself the BASIC programming language. That spurred me to take Computer Science in university.

    • Photo: Steve Bowes-Phipps

      Steve Bowes-Phipps answered on 11 Jul 2025:

      Yes – though I thought I’d be a coder but found out later I actually didn’t enjoy coding that much to do it full time, so I prefer the roles I eventually took in systems support and data centres

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