I used to write games on my parents old zx spectrum. I never did end up going into the games industry, but it taught me BASIC and later C++

I didnt. Programming learned how to handle me.

My mum signed me up for a robotics workshop with Lego mindstorms... i kept going to these workshops, doing some of them multiple times. At some point we went from graphical programming to some other kids language, than we made a robocup junior team from the kids who were like me and kept on showing up at these workshops and used arduino and C. Had a break for a year or so from coding so I could finish school, then I went studying computer science at Uni. And the rest is history.

Past two years when I was in 7th grade, my computer teacher taught us the first programming language ie Python. At first, I just copied the syntax in my copy, and in the evening, I searched for it on YT

This introduced me to a new world of programming and I started learning it further

Wrote my first programs on my Commodore C64.
First program was a number guessing game where you needed to guess a number between 1 and 100. Shit had 300+ lines because I only new the if clause and the equals comparison.
I was 9.

Later a friend showed me Modula 2 and I was instantly in love with that language.

Real programming then in school (C, C++, µC assembler).

!rant
School and college introduced me to programming.
Personal perseverance and an excellent group of friends made me better at it.

It was our first computer. probably it was 2008. I was super stupid back then. One day I saw a text file in our desktop, which says, "Hey $username, how are you? Message me here I-forgot-his-email@yahoo.com"
No matter how much we delete the text file, it kept on recreating and keep on adding same texts with multiple lines. I was really annoyed!

Yahoo messenger was popular back then. So I messaged the person using Yahoo messenger and he replied. Our conversation went this way:
Me: (after explaining a bit about the text file) what is this?
Him: it is a virus
Me: how do I delete this?
Him: if I teach you how to delete it, the whole purpose of creating it would be in vain
Me: okay, how do I create something like this?
Him: just Google

That day I was swearing at him from the bottom of my heart, not through messenger, but from my mind, because he didn't teach me how he made that virus.

I was like, "I will show you ***** that even I can make a virus better than that". So, I started googling & started learning how to make these scripts. The more I learned, the more it blew my mind. I was creating simple stuffs like, opening/closing CD rom every 5 seconds. It was so fun back then. Cause, my friends had no clue why their CD roms kept opening every 5 seconds.

After a few days, I started to thank the virus creator from the bottom of my heart. Cause, if he taught me how to create THAT virus that day, I probably would've just learned THAT one thing and stopped. But because he didn't teach me that, to learn one thing, I got to learn more than that one thing, which I'm really thankful for.

And then the journey started. Learned Batch, VBscript, C, C++, Java and so on. And still learning new things everyday...

Learned bash scripting age 17 for the sole purpose of automatically downloading porn using wget.

Lmao I’ve never learned how to program. I’m just winging it and have been able to fool everyone the last 10 years.

Senior engineer checking in.

Logo (For my Hacking game) just finished. Thoughts?

Well, ... Ok ...

Captcha is the key to winning the war against the machines!!?

I guess everyone need this :)

Companies asking if your desired salary is negotiable.

me: import express from 'express';

my IDE: quick fix: remove import express from 'express'; ('express' is declared but its value is never read.)

me: // you don't say, as I only just started typing!

I'll just leave this here

No idea if this is already posted but it made my day.

😢 ..damn true...

Found that a bit funny.

How documentation works

Reddit understands

Lose some ...

And you can only hope you don't have to compile it yourself using alternate sources.

When someone thinks they know the life of a coder but they don't.

i need this rn

made my day

This is so mean

Give that man some HUGE FUCKING COOKIES!

Yeah sure blame the dev -_-