User:Hasan aljudy

My name is Hasan (pronounced more accurately as hasen), I'm 21 years old, I'm originally from Iraq, but I live in Calgary, Canada. I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Calgary.

My mother language is Arabic, at home I speak the beghdadi and the muslawi dialects (the dialects of Baghdad and Mousel, respectively). Sometimes I say short phrases in English, and recently I discovered that I even think in English sometimes!!

I have an interest in the Japanese language, due of course, to watching anime. Boku wa hesen desu! ぼくはヘセンです. I'm even taking a Japanese class this semester. It's kinda funny, because I don't even watch alot of animes, I used to be very interested in DBZ (subbed), and now I'm interested in Meitantei Conan (Detective Conan). The problem with Conan is that alot of episodes are still not subbed, and what's being subbed is not being done in order. There are many episodes and few subbing groups. I want to be able to watch it and understand it in Japanese.

I think kinda lied .. because actually, when I talk at home, I usually say short things in a weird mix of Arabic, English and Japanese. For example, "Where is watashi no ekil", which means "Where is my food". "watashi no" means "my" in Japanese, and "ekil" is my translitiration of the word that means "food" in beghdadi and muslawi.

My interest in computers started when I was a child. Back home, at Baghdad, in the good old days, my aunt had an MSX computer, and at elementary school, computers and ataris were kind of a big thing that we always talk about. I remember how we were talking about that "big" and "advanced" computer called "IBM", and we also were hearing roumers about even a bigger and better computer called "Amega". These sort of big computers were very mysterious to us. (I never knew what that Amega thing was all about, does any one know?!). I always wanted to have an MSX like my aunt (actually we called it 'sekher'), and one day, my dad bought one for us! and it was a very nice surprise. I started learning programming with BASIC. I remember learning about if statements and for loops, also goto's and sub programs. I don't remember doing any actual programming, but the concepts kinda sank in my head. About six years later, a friend of my dad gave him a book about C++. At the time, I didn't have a computer at home, and I didn't know English, so I couldn't even read the book, but my dad used to sit with me, and read it for himself and for me. (The book was Dietels' C++ How to Program). It was only two years later that I got a PC, and probably one year after that when I started getting serious about programming (not many years ago).