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What inspired you to pursue a career or hobby in programming? (programming.dev)
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[–] calypsopub@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Was majoring in accounting and had to take a CS101 class programming in Pascal. Changed majors immediately, thinking "Where has this been all my life?" This predates PCs, although I did have a Commodore 64 to practice coding on BASIC after that.