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

submitted 1 year 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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[–] vyla 2 points 1 year ago

google appmaker. it had blocks you could drag to do stuff. i made a few games where you click stuff to make other things show and change the color of things, kind of like point nad click adventures but eith just buttons and background colors

then a year later i found scratch and i got addicted. scratch -> python -> html/css/js and nodejs -> visual basic for a bit -> ...