After early studies with famed pianist Vladimir Horowitz and organist Virgil Fox, Charles E. Brown made his debut at age 16 with conductor Leonard Bernstein during one of Bernstein’s famed Young People’s Concerts. He went to New York’s prestigious Juilliard School and, after serving in the U.S. Navy, went on to continue his education at the Paris Conservatory where he studied with Igor Stravinsky and Olivier Messiaen. As a result, he developed a close friendship with legendary 20th-century artist Pablo Picasso. In 1983 he was one of the first people to get involved with training Fortune 500 employees in the use of the then PC and related software. In those early days, he taught programs like DOS, Multimate, dBase, and Lotus 1-2-3. During that time he taught himself programming by first learning Visual Basic and then advancing on to Java. He now programs in Java, JavaScript, Angular, React, iOS (Swift), Android (Java and Kotlin), and Python.
Presently, he is switching his focus from doing over 30 live seminars a year to online, self-paced training. He feels that the future is with companies like Udemy.com that offer quality self-paced training at affordable prices.