Lorenzo Donati‭

Pronouns: he/his.

Location: Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen (nothern Italy)

• Former research assistant (SW Engineering).
• Former SW developer in a research institution (SW for Linguistics research).
• Since 2005 teacher in a technical high school.
  • SW development.
  • Electronics.
  • Telecommunications.

Education: Master-level degree in Telecommunication Engineering from University of Pisa.

Dabbling with electronics since I was 12 and with computers since I was 13.

• First computer I put my paws on: Sinclair ZX81.
• First owned computer: Texas Instruments TI99/4A (2nd hand).
• First owned "serious" computer: Apple //e.
• Computer languages, more ore less in the order in which I made first contact with them.
  _{In bold those in which I have had substantial expertise at a certain point of my life. In red if I wrote a piece of software that was at least 1000 LOC and worked well} 😄 _{(in a few cases it was more like 10kLOC or 100kLOC – comments excluded).}
  • BASIC
  • Assembly
  • Forth
  • Pascal
  • Fortran
  • C
  • Matlab
  • C++
  • Java
  • LISP
  • HTML/CSS
  • Javascript
  • XML
  • Perl
  • Python
  • Lua
  • LaTeX
  • Go

If you enjoy Electronics:

• EEVblog website
• EEVblog YouTube channel
• Elliot Sound Products
• The Feynman lectures on Physics
  • If you think that's just physics, give it a go. Not only that guy won a Nobel prize for QED (Quantum Electrodynamics), but before studying Physics he went to Electrical Engineering school (he found it too practical for his tastes :-).

Computer related stuff:

• Ross Anderson's Security Engineering books (2nd and 1st editions are free, scroll down) .