[gavinpc]

Same (from my uncle, who then worked at Martin Marietta on the shuttle tankers).

While I enjoyed reading through them and learned a number of concepts, his books helped demonstrate that I was not going to become an electrical engineer. I just didn't know what to do with it. Whereas, I was exposed to programming books at the same time (starting with David A. Lien) and was like a fish in water.

Also, RIP Radio Shack, though it was really a slow death by degrees.

[setquk]

Odd path here. I did EE and ended up writing software. All my peers who did mechanical engineering, control systems and law actually ended up writing software as well. All roads lead to software in 2018!