Technical writer. I got published many software reviews and programming articles. The magazine was produced by MGE COMMUNICATIONS.

A web site I created to illustrate my extension of the popular Goldbach Conjecture. Click on the *** link to try it right now, from your browser.

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While attending my compulsory year of military service, I worked at FACL, a small unit of the General Staff of the Italian Army. I built a program for reporting the status of the military forces (people per unit and location).

I got my first computer, a Commodore 64, as a gift from my grandmother, Margherita. She paid for it 600,000 lire. ¹300 euro in 1982 are equivalent to 1,176.24 euro in 2021

I used it to type and run my first computer program in BASIC, which I had learned at the after-school course I was attending.

It was a Maths program, which I had been hand-writing on paper and running step-by-step in my mind for some months. After typing it in, it ran flawlessly. I was very proud.

After completing the mandatory education in Italy in the 70′ ¹elementary school (6-11 years old), and middle school (11-14 years old), I chose to continue my scientific education and attended the Liceo Scientifico Statale Plinio Seniore high school in Rome, IT (14-19 years old).

In 1982, at my second year there, they started a “Corso extrascolastico di informatica”, which I attended once a week, on Wednesdays, after school.

A professional programmer, which worked at a nearby company, taught me how to program in the BASIC language.