Douglas Samuel Technical Writer Ottawa Ontario

I've always been great with technology: both using it, and finding out what makes it tick.  As a child I used to take apart watches (back when they were  full of tiny gears) and put them back together again.

Later, I made my own gizmos, mostly electronics.  Eventually I got into computer programming and building my own peripherals.

It was in my university electrical engineering program that I discovered the power of documentation.

In one of the software development courses I took, we had to use an esoteric language with an experimental compiler.  The compiler had bugs: any variable declared as int instead of long int caused the program to fail.  I didn't know this until much later.

Even though none of my assignments shipped with working software, I got a pretty good mark - writing documentation more than made up for the lack of an operational  program.

There is a lesson in this: good documentation can overcome a lot of technical glitches. 

I also noticed that while my fellow engineers despised writing of any kind, I liked it.

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