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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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[–] shufflerofrocks 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly I was put off from programming as a child because we had a bad teacher.

I got into it a few years later because of a desire for understanding and independance - I wanted to be able to understand all these complicated tools and languages, be able to make my own judgements about tech, and be able to use all these things to build stuff.

Even now, making a simple script to automate a task is fulfilling as hell.

Started with c++, java, then python, then c#, then js and it's many flavours, then flutter/dart.

I like to think myself as a generalist who knows a little bit about everything and how they all work together. I'm ideal for building things, but not optimal for scaling or optimising stuff.