Education

In High School (Blair High School, Pasadena CA), I got experience programming:

in JOSS (a predecessor of MUMPS) (interactively on an IBM Selectric rigged as a TTY) at Caltech. Wrote an adventure game.
in Fortran II and IV and machine language on an IBM 1620. Wrote simulations and games.
in Fortran IV on a Univac mainframe at JPL, the Mariner Mars backup computer. Wrote a simulation of the Earths' carbon cycle.

University education:

Bachelors of Science in Linguistics, Kresge College, UCSC, 1978.
Attended University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), then transferred to the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). Studied Lingustics, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Political Economy. I wrote a 300 page senior thesis on pronouns.
Additional coursework in Computer Science, UCSC 1980-2.
Studied Data structures, Compiler theory, Computer Architecture. Programmed in Pascal under UNIX V7 on a PDP11.