Kündölük has a new theme this month: black and pink, with a moving line of text. Meerim's friend Aika is using it already. Meerim herself has her own black-and-glitter style she wrote by hand.
I stay on the first theme. It loads fast, it has few colours and nobody has ever said "this blog hurts my eyes". Boring is a feature.
Pascal is over. Now it is C. The teacher says C is "a sharp knife" and that "a beginner will cut himself". I cut myself on the first day (a missing semicolon) and spent two hours.
The group is 23 now, one boy went to work at his uncle's shop. The six girls are all still here and they all have better marks than the boys. Facts.
Last day at Kuble Soft. Mederbek-agay shook my hand like I was an adult and gave me a floppy disk with a label "ALIPPE 1.3, tested by B.". I will keep it forever, next to the Köch disk.
The cat of the office is called Bayt (it means "heavy" or something like that, nobody remembers why). On the last day Bayt slept on my keyboard. I think that is a good review.
What I learned: a program is finished not when it works, but when someone who does not like computers can use it. A girl came from a school to try Alippe, she was 8, and she hit the keys so hard the F key flew away.
They said yes! I am doing practice at Kuble Soft for July and August. It is two rooms, five people, many many boxes of disks, and a cat. Mederbek-agay (he wrote Köch!) is very quiet and very kind. He showed me the BASIC listing of the first version, printed on paper from 1979.
My work: testing Alippe, their typing program for schools, on Windows XP. It has bugs with the Iradi letters ı and ğ. I am finding them. So I am a tester now. Professional.
It finally happened: I bought a flash drive. 512 MB, 150 som (the price of 75 bus rides, I counted). In my hand it weighs nothing, and inside it I carry: my Pascal programs, two textbooks, forty songs, and Köch.
My father looked at it and said: "In 1991 the whole game was on a disk as big as the plate." Then he asked if he can put his photographs on it. So now it is "our" flash drive.