To give some context, I’m a developer myself and once I had a conversation with someone who has not “tasted” programming, but was wondering about passion and career. I was asked what I like about programming. My answer was that my interest in it came from writing small scripts when I was young to automate things.
Aside from being a career, I’m curious what got you into coding ?
Hacking early shareware to unlock features because I didn’t have money.
Wait… That’s still about money. Uh… Puzzles.
I was heavy into skateboarding as a kid, and I was interested in making some skateboarding media website with images and videos. I had initially began with wix, because I had no idea programming was a thing (I barely used technology, or even a phone). I messed around with it for a while, and then learned that I could make websites with just a simple html file… And the rest was history. Ended up getting into PHP, then game development with Java, etc.
I didn’t like the math they threw at me in the Networking course I did - back in 2006, I think. I think it was like Ohms law, but I saw that shit and noped out into a Gamedev course. And that’s how I ended up Iearning Algebra: by learning how to program. Before that, math always scared me.
Anyway, I didn’t become a gamedev due to grueling hours I heard they did (fuck that - I work to live, not the other way around), and ended up becoming a data engineer.
I learned C, C++, Java, Python, C#, Haskell, Python again (because the lack of types confused the hell out of me - glad they fixed that bit!), roughtly in that order, so I’m pretty all-rounded software engineer in general, when it comes to languages :D
I dicked around with BASIC in the early 90s and then started CS in high school, where I learned Pascal and it just took off from there.
Web design. I suck at it, but it got me into programming.
