Welcome

Welcome to the blog of Neil Schledorn, history teacher in central NC and tech enthusiast.  First, some background:

I've been interested in computers as long as I can remember.  My first PC was an IBM 8086 with dual 5.25" floppy drives.  I used to spend hours tinkering with DOS so I could play such amazing games as Legacy of the Ancients and Dr. Doom's Revenge.  As cliche as it sounds, I learned about computers because I wanted to play video games.  Popping a disk into an XBOX is nothing like allocating memory in DOS just to get a game to play.

On that same computer I learned a bit of BASIC programming and wrote a simple program that would allow me to catalog my comic books. 

Following the 8086 my family moved up to a Pentium 133 and that introduced me to Windows.  A new OS came with new challenges.  Now it was getting my old games to work with the new system.  Thankfully Windows 95 still had native DOS support so there was not too much to figure out.

Fast forwarding a few years saw me in high school.  There I took all of the computer classes I could, basic typing, HTML, C++, hardware, and networking.  While in high school I also found that I had a passion for history.  I was not until college that I really decided to persue that passion.

When I first became an undergrad my plan was to graduate with a degree in computer science and find a job in an office somewhere.  After one year I decided that route wasn't for me and I changed my hobby, history, into my career.  I worked towards a history, secondary education degree which I earned in 2004.  I've been teaching at the same school ever sense and love every minute of it.