What is your WHY in CODING?
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
Randy Ga wrote:
When did you first learn to code and why?
Back in the early 90s, I took a computer class in High School because I knew computers would become a big thing and I thought it would be good to help me get into college. It turns out it was a Pascal Programming class and for the first 3 weeks the computers weren't ready so we did everything on the whiteboard. I was so lost and confused, I had no clue what we were doing. Nothing made sense at all. Once the computers were ready and I saw the Pascal compiler and where we were typing in the commands, it all made sense and I've been doing programming ever since.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
My first lines of codes were written in 1983 or 1984; at that time I had a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer, and the language was (extended) BASIC. Why? Because coding is just awesome :)
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
1978 for me. I took up the trade because I wasn't required to talk to people that annoy me.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
The first computer I laid my hands on was a Sinclair ZX81 (black and white), I was fascinated and got hooked on Basic programming. Did not think I would be doing this as a profession later on in life, evolved from Basic to VB, VB.NET and finally C#.
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
When: Sometimes in 1981,82,83-ish (sinclair, Apple II...). and after that, university by the start of the 90's Why: Because it was supposed to be the thing of the future, and I (well, my parents helped a bit) had to start learning it.
I'd rather be phishing!
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1978 for me. I took up the trade because I wasn't required to talk to people that annoy me.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
to talk to people that annoy me.
Little did you know then that you'd be an active participant of CP. :laugh:
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
to talk to people that annoy me.
Little did you know then that you'd be an active participant of CP. :laugh:
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
When? Back in the late '70s at University. Why? "It's indoor work with no heavy lifting".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt -
When? Back in the late '70s at University. Why? "It's indoor work with no heavy lifting".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OriginalGriff wrote:
with no heavy lifting
Unless you had one of those "boat anchor" portable computers. :)
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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My first lines of codes were written in 1983 or 1984; at that time I had a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer, and the language was (extended) BASIC. Why? Because coding is just awesome :)
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
Did you buy the huge 32K Memory Expansion and dabble in assembly language with it? I did. First 16-bit CPU, baby!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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1978 for me. I took up the trade because I wasn't required to talk to people that annoy me.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013Ditto, except I found out that stupid has no boundaries or limitations...
Don't let your mind wander too far. It's too small to be let out alone.
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Did you buy the huge 32K Memory Expansion and dabble in assembly language with it? I did. First 16-bit CPU, baby!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I had indeed the 32K memory expansion, but I did not code in assembly language; not that I did not want to, I remember having searched for books on the subject; but at that time, I did not get any, or at least any I could understand easily. There must have been some good materials on the subject back then, but not in my native language, unfortunately. I was a teenager, and at that time the only English words I could speak were those of the songs I was listening to; something like: "Won't you take me to... Funkytown!". I could sing them, but not understand.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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My first lines of codes were written in 1983 or 1984; at that time I had a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer, and the language was (extended) BASIC. Why? Because coding is just awesome :)
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
phil.o wrote:
TI-99/4A
Me too! A pricing war had made them affordable so my brothers and I got one for Christmas in either '82 or '83. My brothers were interested in the games but I realized that there was much more to it than that and soon had it doing my algebra homework, playing music with flashing colors...what fun! :) Luckily, we had an extra TV for the basement! :)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
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phil.o wrote:
TI-99/4A
Me too! A pricing war had made them affordable so my brothers and I got one for Christmas in either '82 or '83. My brothers were interested in the games but I realized that there was much more to it than that and soon had it doing my algebra homework, playing music with flashing colors...what fun! :) Luckily, we had an extra TV for the basement! :)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
When: Spring 1980 Why: Because it was interesting (it became less interesting in college later that year because they used [time shared] mainframes and mainframes bored me and still do.) I continued doing it because it's one thing I'm very good at and which pays the bills. One could argue that it's the only thing I'm very good at.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
with no heavy lifting
Unless you had one of those "boat anchor" portable computers. :)
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Hah! In those days you needed a crane to change the disk! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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When did you first learn to code and why? I learned in 2012 and my WHY is to hopefully be successful one day in helping millions.
Late 80s on a commodore64. I was sick of repeatedly estimating the number of tiles on a roof, and getting it wrong. The application reduced my error rate from about 20% to 5% and those were transposition errors because I had to write up the order manually.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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The first computer I laid my hands on was a Sinclair ZX81 (black and white), I was fascinated and got hooked on Basic programming. Did not think I would be doing this as a profession later on in life, evolved from Basic to VB, VB.NET and finally C#.
I went the same path but started with a commodore 64 and went via SuperBase before I got into VB.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
