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Doug Mackay will never forget the first day he felt the pulse of programming. The 38-year-old St. Clair native was a kindergartner when his father, an administrator at East Central College, brought home an Apple IIe computer with a green and black screen. The computer was a popular Apple product from 1983 until 1993. “I started messing with it, and I asked him how to program,” Mackay said. “Of course, that’s an insane question. So my father’s response was he brought hom...