Mike Tucker

M.I.S. Director

Mike first started programming in GW-BASIC and QBASIC in fall of 1997, which was his last year of high school. He quickly learned many things dealing with GW-BASIC including some advanced features including creating graphical games that used the joystick and a simple data processing and storage system. After learning to program, He switched his major to Computer Science with an emphasis on Computer Programming.

In fall of 1998, Mike started at Mineral Area College and learned FORTRAN 77 and C++ using the GNU CC compiler. During time away from class he taught himself Assembly using Microsoft DEBUG and Visual BASIC. Also during this time he learned about the GNU project, EMACS, and got his first taste of Linux, Debian.

After graduating from Mineral Area College with his Associates of Arts in Computer Science in the spring of 2000, Mike continued to teach himself as much about computers as possible, while searching for a job.

In 2001, he joined Data Dash, in Data Entry.

Programming Languages
AID, Assembly, BASIC, C, C++, FORTRAN 77, GW-BASIC, Java, PHP, QBASIC, Quick BASIC, VBA, Visual BASIC, Visual C++, and VBS.

Web Languages
Angular, ASP, ASP.NET, CGI, CSS, HTML, jQuery, JS, PHP, VBS, XHTML, XML, and VRML.

Operating Systems
Debian, Dragora, Fedora, Free BSD, gNewsense, MS-DOS 3.0 and 6.2, Microsoft Windows 3.11, 95, 98, ME, 2K, XP, Vista, and 7, 8, 10, Microsoft Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, Open SUSE, OS/2, Trisquel, Ubuntu, and Zorin.

Office Software
Ami Pro, Corel Word Perfect Suite 8 and 10, Microsoft Office 2000, 2003, 2010, 365, Microsoft Works Office, Open Office, and Sun Office.

Database
Access, MySQL, and SQL Server.

Webservers
Apache, HTTP Server, IIS, Jigsaw, and PWS.

Miscellaneous
Laserfiche, Microsoft Money, and DMAC Unibase.