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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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[–] Xor@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't really remember what made me start but I do remember my first project being a hilariously bad c++ blackjack game, all spaghetti code. Also learned a lot by building Minecraft redstone circuits. I remember building a thing that sent a piece of data over a single redstone wire and stored it in redstone memory, I was so proud of myself for figuring it out lol

Did a little java to make Minecraft mods but eventually I stumbled on python and it stuck bc it was so easy to use.

[–] strudel6242@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I got a lot of fundamental computer science from Minecraft's redstone too. Making a 3x3 piston door was basically a work of art haha

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

Can't believe how much time I spent as kid squinting at poorly drawn diagrams on the minecraft forums and trying to figure out what the hell I'm supposed to building haha