I Nearly Messed Up My Program. Learn From My Mistake!

HuwsTube July 25, 2025
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Huw Collingbourne is a writer, programmer and explorer of all things weird and wonderful. Having misspent his youth interviewing pop stars for magazines such as Flexipop! and Jackie he went on to write programming books on subjects ranging from C and C# to Object Pascal, & Java. He was the author of the Rants&Raves column which ran for many years in Computer Shopper Magazine and PC Plus. He programmed the Golden Wombat Of Destiny adventure game and developed visual design programming environments for SapphireSteel Software.

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