What made you get into Programming?

I was fascinated by computer games and was curious how that works.

Bought a book with a cd about game dev and started to fiddle around with BASIC, not understanding anything.

Then bought another book about game dev, using C++ and Allegro.
Learned a lot and my destiny became clear :)

I‘m no game dev but the dream hasn’t died yet.

General interest in tech combined with the realisation that I couldn't do much with hardware. I knew how to assemble a PC and how to do some basic hardware troubleshooting when I was 15, but that wasn't very useful in practice.

being too poor to do anything else

I also became a dev because I was interested in game development, and ended up in webdev

my first code was a DOS based pong game I copied from a tutorial

The bitches.

But seriously, kinda same as jestdotty, but it was more of neglecting by parents. All I had was several computers. Everyone with an old computer dumped it at me and started to swapping memories and stuff. Then I found out basic, and then I found out my dad made a very popular program in basic back dem days. The we found hobby together and started to program from eight years old. Programming made my life :)

- Tried minecraft modding when I was a kid because I thought mods were cool (didn't really care about the programming side then so I don't know if it counts)
- Randomly signed up for a programming class somewhere at age 14, and since then I found out I REALLY enjoy it
- Dad's a programmer, grew up around computers and linux and hacking stuff to make it work

I liked video games (still do) But that was not really about programming.

It all started at school with a TI-82 calculator.

I wrote a lot of programs, small funny games, shared "cheats". Like in math, we had to always put the steps when doing stuff, I wrote a program where you enter the equation (Like (a+b)² and stuff like that) and it would print out all the different steps. Was it cheating? Maybe... But it helped for me to learn the actual formulas and break them down.

@Grumm you "cheated" in math by learning programming?

I was glued to the computer since I was a kid, mainly video games. I always have and still do wonder how some games are made. My first experience was reading a book about webdev when I was 11. Tried programming and got bored (and had no idea what i had to build). But a few years later, we had programming in school and that got me hooked. The year after I swapped to a different school with a more focus on IT & programming.

Maybe in the future I'll do a side project regarding gaming ':)

Hacking (as in modifying server files for private servers not cheating) MMOs

Then I learned java and did some MC modding. If you're happy that you don't have the version number at the top of the screen/the pirate message, you're welcome ;P

- Saw Galagon on my Dad's old toshiba windows xp laptop.
- Eventually developed a gaming addiction.
- Gaming addiction evolved into wanting to mod/create games.
- Took basic computer sciences in high school

Well, now I'm here.

Games - a gateway drug to programming!

I was 14 and my mum didn't pay the internet so I went into my C:/ drive and digged coz it was the 90ies and everything was so boring all the time.

Found a js file, wondered what that was, then I went to the library and started reading a book about C++ from Bjarne Stroustrup

@Lensflare I remember in my first year of college that a quarter of the students dropped out because they thought they would be able to developer Super Mario after 1 year. By the last year, those people were struggling with css to the point they quit :D

@wojtek322 lol. I think making super mario might actually be easier than doing ui with css 😅

@jonathands I didn't really cheated. After making the program, usually I knew how the math formula's worked. It was more of a tool that helped me with the boring parts :P