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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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[–] big_tabb 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I can trace the start to YoYo Games GameMaker, I remember feeling a little restricted by their event chaining system and wanting to learn a bit more how game scripting works. That led me to taking a "Computer Programming" class in high school (building simple Windows application in Visual Basic), which led to me studying Comp Sci in college. As I'm sure is the case for many nerds-turned-devs, most of the inspiration for wanting to learn at first was to understand how games work, and the curiosity spread from there!

[–] SoaringFox 3 points 1 year ago

Hey it sounds like we took a similar class in high school!