Small World, Indeed.
From my wife’s Facebook page:
Weird to be reading a book for pleasure and to unexpectedly see a citation for a journal article that my company’s CEO wrote. Also weird: the book describes a cognitive psych university experiment that a young Rod Knowlton helped out on the software end with when he was taking a class from my CEO in college. The world is small, but apparently even more so for nerds.
For the curious:
- The code was written in Commodore 64 BASIC V2 on my personal machine in 1984.
- I was a freshman and hadn’t taken any of the prerequisites for the junior level class. I just liked the name (Computers and Cognition).
- I wrote three programs: One to generate the number grids that were to be displayed and store them on floppy disk, one that participants interacted with as the core of the experiment, and one to tabulate the results.
- I’ll be contacting Amanda’s CEO to see if the code still exists. If it does, it’ll be the oldest extant example of my programming, and I’d like to see it.
- The book she was reading is Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
(Source: facebook.com)
