This would not have been news if it wasn’t for the fact that my wife never went to computer school nor has worked in a programming related field, ever.

You see, my wife is a girly girl. The one that thinks first about what to wear and which makeup to apply when she goes somewhere. The one that does her nails 7 times a week or more. The one that likes pink things. The one that makes the best damn cake in the area. You get my point.

Yet, she is now a certified developer. It wasn’t easy – we started with Charles Petzold’s most excellent book Code, then moved on to object-oriented design in general, then finally to the concrete programming language (VB.NET). We developed a couple of small projects and then bought her the material for self-study preparations for the exam. For one of the tests she attended the 4 week course, for the other she just read the books. I helped as much as I could, but she did all the hard work.

I’m so proud. One more developer in the family, yay! On the other hand, she’s a VB person and I am a C# person, so some rivalry is to be expected