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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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[–] strudel6242@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

explaining basic c++11 features to the TA in 2018 yikes!

I feel like universities have a special opportunity to teach really cool concepts that would be impractical in bootcamps and such; learning about the maths behind algorithms and data structures, how to evaluate them objectively, learning about grammars and expressions, building interpreters / compilers, all this stuff that can be really useful if you find yourself working beyond simple CRUD stuff.

That being said, these days so much work is just CRUD, so ymmv.