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What got you into coding ? (aside from money) (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by meter_kilo@lemm.ee to c/programming@programming.dev

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To give some context, I'm a developer myself and once I had a conversation with someone who has not "tasted" programming, but was wondering about passion and career. I was asked what I like about programming. My answer was that my interest in it came from writing small scripts when I was young to automate things.

Aside from being a career, I'm curious what got you into coding ?

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[–] fzz@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Kind of destiny 🤦🏻‍♂️

I started programming when I was in primary school. And I liked it very much, even though I didn't understand much even then. But it was impossible to stop and here I am writing this after about 30+ years.

What exactly attracted me - my father soldered a Russian clone of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, showed me a couple of games loaded from a tape cassette, and I was curious how it works.

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 2 points 1 year ago

Man, games must be some of the first software children actually get a hold of. It's also why I got into programming.