Ely Eshel got hooked on programming more than 30 years ago, in his
high-school Junior year, and has not been able to stop
since. To this day, all of his professional activities
revolve around computer software and programming.
After graduating from high-school, he joined the Armed Forces. For most of his service he was, of course, programming, and one of the pioneering projects he developed even won the Information Processing Association Award in 1979. For two years he was also an instructor, teaching new recruits how to program. Following his discharge, he went to work for a defense contractor, and was programming various military applications. He advanced to project leading and architecture roles, but never stopped programming. From Defense he moved to Financial Services, developing trading and banking applications for Citibank, Merrill-Lynch, ADP and others. Having spent so many years programming, and realizing the need for programming tools, he co-founded a software company, Momentum Software, which developed communication programming tools and was one of the pioneers of the Middleware Industry. Naturally, he was one of the programmers developing the first few releases, even while carrying the title and duties of Chief Technology Officer. During that period he also wrote several articles and papers and was an invited speaker to many of the software industry's events. After his company was sold, he worked for various other software companies, serving as Chief Technology Officer at MINT Communications, Development Manager at Net2Phone and Vice President of Research and Development at w-Technologies. These days, he is involved with Web and Internet development consulting at his own company, Epsilon Software Engineering. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer. Ely decided to write this book when his son, then 12 years old, wanted to learn how to program. To his dismay, he discovered that there were no books on this subject for children that age, and no school or after-school programs were available. He then decided to combine his many years of experience in programming with his teaching and presentation experience, and provide children with the opportunity to learn programming at a young age. |
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