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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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[–] Mindless_Enigma 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Started out by tinkering with the old LEGO Mindstorm robots as a kid. Learned how to code using the graphical drag and drop system they had for the RCX and NXT platforms. I was interested in all things robotics so fast forward to High School where I was on the school's FRC team. I was involved with that one both the hardware and software fronts until there were a few close calls working on physical prototypes. Decided then that I would be better off always behind the computer screens. Learned Java so I wouldn't ever have to mess with LabView again and then went to college for a CS degree.

Learned surface level knowledge for several languages throughout school and now work as a full stack .NET developer.

[–] GandalfDG 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also started with Mindstorms! Went from the visual programming language to using NQC which was a c-like compiler for the RCX. From there went on to learn Java, C++, C, Python, Z80 assembly, etc. etc.

[–] Mindless_Enigma 3 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, I remember NQC! It went over my head as a kid as far as learning how to write code with it went, but it was such a cool idea to me. Running "real" code on a little LEGO robot.