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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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[–] honeyontoast 2 points 2 years ago

After college (UK college, that's 16-18) I had no idea what I wanted to do but I liked playing games so I picked a foundation degree in computing. Turned out to be pretty good, but lacked a lot of confidence and was too scared to actually try getting a job.

Worked for a very small independent retailer for a while afterwards and basically became their entire IT team which helped a lot with the confidence. Got a job in IT support then made an internal switch to a Dev team. Switched companies a few times since then and now I'm a senior .NET developer 😄