I swear that's how it works!!!
How did you get into programming? ✨
#CyanTechMeme
How did you get into programming? ✨
#CyanTechMeme
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Client: "How do you know all of this stuff?"
Me: "I get paid to look it up."
Interviewer turned to me and asked if I knew what a computer was
I said Yes
Do you want a job as a programmer? they said
Yes I said
Started learning COBOL from IBM Programmed Instruction Texts
In 1974
(Yes, they had computers back then!)
So I did it myself. And that's basically where I still am, almost 6 years later. I'm doing a lot more different stuff today, but I will never be able to leave Minecraft behind.
Scaling between Minecraft servers, Recreating the game's server in other languages, working around protocol limitations
I feel like if I had started with anything else, I wouldn't be at the point I am right now.
And now she has got into software development as well 😅
I think I missed my shot tho, since she has a boyfriend now 😅
Although I didn't do java after school
(Yes, I indeed started with visual basic)
If you’re bored
Go down the pub.
While at pub,
Drink beer
Until drunk
Else
Carry on
End if
Me now: "Okay, servers in our VPC are timing out when connecting to our on-site systems, we need to figure this out!"
Be sure to give your kids a guiding hand when they show interest in programming, they could accidentally start doing infrastructure
Years later, I took a programming discipline at uni, and was hooked! Used a PC-XT, DOS, Turbo Pascal 5.5. Then I learned COBOL.
I became a professional programmer by 1994.
Then later in highschool I took comp sci and game dev classes
Also my high school offered a program course, and I was 1 of 3 students in that class.
I just kept dinking around with computers and googling how to do more and more stuff until eventually I had IDE open with C++ or whatever open in front of me.
I do like it, but it's my job, not my passion.
I program because I hated waiting on Excel. 😂
I'm also a TA for GameMaker club at my old school where I help debug students' projects
Makes my life so much easier.
It was so much fun!
That's probably cheating, but it helped me visualize what was going on.
It is the way.
The actual learning was the never ending rabbit hole of Wikipedia links, stack overflow replies, and git repos.
- Messing around with PHP files on free web hosts.
- Noodling around some source code for a small menu program I was using on Linux.
It then just snowballed from there.
Went to some robotics contests back then as well and I'm doing my own little projects too.
I can’t even describe the euphoria I get from completing a project I’ve planned and built on my own!
If you wanted to learn about programming, you went to the mall and bought a book.
1. Found a mentor. Who was where I wanna be.
2. Studied hard. It's not easy, but it's worth it....
3. Accepted a low pay salary for first year.
Result? Got a job in tech!
Life is weird.