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How'd you get into programming? (self.programming)

submitted 2 years ago by strudel6242 to c/programming

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Personally, I started off with Roblox back in the early 2010s, and taught myself Lua. I really liked those Tycoon games, and wanted to see how they worked.

I eventually found Minecraft (like every kid back in the day did), and learnt Java to make Bukkit server mods.

Around 2016 I thought websites were kinda cool, so I started learning HTML, CSS, and JS, and I've been in the web dev space ever since.

What about the rest of y'all? What's your personal programming path?

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[–] Swimmerman96 7 points 2 years ago

I started in junior year of high school, I knew I was interested in computers and my father encouraged me to sign up for Computer Science class. I enjoyed that and we were briefly exposed to programming concepts and I really liked it. I took the next programming class with the same teacher. We worked with Java, writing programs for Karol the Robot to programmatically move Karol around her grid with walls. When it came time to think about college, I knew I wanted to be in computing but not what for sure. So I chose to apply to tech schools to have a little flexibility in case programming wasn't for me as a profession, and started in the Software Engineering major. From there we worked with Python, Java, C, Ruby, and so many more languages. Here I am today, a few years into being a professional Software Engineer, running a homelab for fun, and loving it.