I'm Justin Barrett. I've been messing with code in various forms since the early 80s. My dad bought a Commodore VIC-20, and while I mostly typed in programs from magazines (yes, that was a thing!), I wrote a few of my own, including a simple assembly language program that animated a static Pac-Man-like character.
While I took a couple programming classes in junior-high and high school, I'm mostly self-taught. Here's a rough chronology of my programming language experience:
- BASIC and assembly (Commodore)
- Pascal (Apple II?)
- VBA (Excel, early 2000s)
- PHP
- JavaScript (brief dabbling)
- MEL (Maya Embedded Language)
- Python
- JavaScript & TypeScript
I've been the IT Manager for Lights Over Atlanta since early 2022. Side projects include voiceover, theatre, and personal coding.