Why did you start programming?
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I love to know the reason's why people do things so here I go again. Why did we all get into this thing called coding? For me I wanted to me girls, kidding :) I hung out with the nerds in high school and I was the hardware guy and I just got tired of not knowing who the hard and software worked together, so I got involved with Pascal, then Basic, then C++ then VB took a break to work with linux, (don't ask) now I'm going at C# with the excitment of a 5 month old goes for a toy.:laugh: It's not a crime to be innocent of things you have not done.--New Model Army
For me, there's only one reason....Games(computer, of course).I like, no , love games. I'm doing this so that someday, i might actually know enough to make my own!.:-D Notorious SMC
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I love to know the reason's why people do things so here I go again. Why did we all get into this thing called coding? For me I wanted to me girls, kidding :) I hung out with the nerds in high school and I was the hardware guy and I just got tired of not knowing who the hard and software worked together, so I got involved with Pascal, then Basic, then C++ then VB took a break to work with linux, (don't ask) now I'm going at C# with the excitment of a 5 month old goes for a toy.:laugh: It's not a crime to be innocent of things you have not done.--New Model Army
wanderlust wrote: Why did we all get into this thing called coding? Girls did not like me. Sports did not like me. Generally other people did not like me. But a computer has never judged me. Then I found Snake in BASIC and started tinkering with it. I was hooked. Now girls and other people like me, but I still suck at sports.
Paul Watson
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Cape Town, South AfricaChristopher Duncan wrote: Which explains why when Santa asked, "And what do you want for Christmas, little boy?" I said, "A life." (Accesories sold separately)
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I love to know the reason's why people do things so here I go again. Why did we all get into this thing called coding? For me I wanted to me girls, kidding :) I hung out with the nerds in high school and I was the hardware guy and I just got tired of not knowing who the hard and software worked together, so I got involved with Pascal, then Basic, then C++ then VB took a break to work with linux, (don't ask) now I'm going at C# with the excitment of a 5 month old goes for a toy.:laugh: It's not a crime to be innocent of things you have not done.--New Model Army
I received this computer[^] as a 11-year old birthday gift. It was a ZX-81 clone, with 16K RAM and 3.25Mhz (ok, only 17% of this clock was available because the CPU wsa responsible for refreshing video) At that time, my dad worked at Prológica. When I received it, the only thing it was possible doing with it was programming in BASIC and ASM. And that was what I did. I went in love with programming and never stoped since. I see dumb people
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I'm socially handicapped so a career as a loner was all that was really open to me. It was either this or architecture and I'll be damned if I am going to spend seven years at university just to draw a couple of bungalows.
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
You know something: I care about people
I don't know, you might get a chance to build the homes of BT executives......:laugh: Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Because I generally dislike and distrust people. A career in Law, Dentistry, or Politics might have been a natural fit... but coding's a good choice. "How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)
Roger Wright wrote: A career in Law, Dentistry, or Politics might have been a natural fit But then I'd be contributing to the general chaos. ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
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I love to know the reason's why people do things so here I go again. Why did we all get into this thing called coding? For me I wanted to me girls, kidding :) I hung out with the nerds in high school and I was the hardware guy and I just got tired of not knowing who the hard and software worked together, so I got involved with Pascal, then Basic, then C++ then VB took a break to work with linux, (don't ask) now I'm going at C# with the excitment of a 5 month old goes for a toy.:laugh: It's not a crime to be innocent of things you have not done.--New Model Army
I was 10 years old, lived in the middle of no where Alabama :) My parents bought a Commodore 64 that year and instead of playing games I started learning how to write programs out of reading magazines.
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found a Commodore Pet in a classroom when i was 12. been at it ever since.
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I was 10 years old, lived in the middle of no where Alabama :) My parents bought a Commodore 64 that year and instead of playing games I started learning how to write programs out of reading magazines.
Hey, a fellow Commie! :-) I was 12 I think when my parents got me a Commodore 64 and a tape drive one Christmas...the following Christmas I got the floppy drive, and the year after a printer!! :eek: Since there wasn't much to do with tapes and no software, I typed in the code samples from the manual that came with it, and followed up with code from magazines. By the time I was in high school and had "proper" programming courses available to me, I was comfortable enough to coding to sleep through most of it. :-)
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Roger Wright wrote: A career in Law, Dentistry, or Politics might have been a natural fit But then I'd be contributing to the general chaos. ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
LOL! You're right; I hadn't thought it through. I'm not sure, though, that writing software that assists Induhviduals in being more efficient in doing whatever it is they do is particularly beneficial to the cause, either. "How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)
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I don't know, you might get a chance to build the homes of BT executives......:laugh: Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
LOL, I could build them like their customer service.... you go in through the front door easily enough but after that you're running round in circles along unmarked corridors where ever door leads back to the start. :)
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
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