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How'd you get into programming? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by strudel6242@beehaw.org to c/programming@beehaw.org

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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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[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

When I was 9 I started using “Cheat'o'matic” to have infinite health in Diablo 1 in the late 90s and it got me really interested in how computers work. I bought a kid-oriented book that taught Turbo Pascal and it showed some cool algorithms to draw spirographs and I enjoyed tinkering with it. From there I got to Delphi. At that point I was playing some online games and heard that they were written in PHP so I started learning that along with HTML. Then C, x86 ASM (just basics), and Flash's ActionScript, Visual Basic, C++, Java, Python, and now Rust.

I got my PhD in computer security and have been working in Cyber R&D doing automated binary analysis.

Fun fact the author of Cheat'o'Matic now works on VAC anti-cheating system