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How'd you get into 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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[–] catacomb@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Club Penguin! I loved the game but once I reached 12 or 13 I was a little bored with it and saw some kids making cheat programs. It was mostly harmless, you could make your penguin giant or change your name to something silly client-side.

Eventually I was making bots that would follow you, or scanners for the "celebrities" (like Rockhopper) and then went on to write servers. The socket code was really fascinating to me.