How did you get into programming in the first place?

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[Finnian Anderson]

Got a Raspberry Pi!

[Simon Porter]

I bought a copy of C++ Primer Plus as a freshman in High School, absorbed it.

[Bedtime Badboy]

Got one of these for Christmas when I was 5.

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[Graham Cox]

ZX spectrum, at the age of about 5. Software either came on tape, or as code in magazines you had to type out. Made it remarkably easy to tinker with and see what happened.

[Constantine Buzikov]

Boss asked to do some stuff that could not be done without coding. I was support back then.

[Alejandro Amador]

I always wanted to create video games since early age : ) but I changed my mind and end up as Front-end Engineer

[Diego Delgadillo]

Same here, but yet, I would like to build a game as a personal project. Serves well if you want to step out from your actual routine.

[Giacomo]

When I was 12 (in the early '90s) a teacher of my school (I can't even remember his name) proposed an afternoon course of 'computer things'. He taught us how to perform basic tasks in DOS (copying and moving files, formatting floppies...) and to code in Basic.

[Rich Smith]

Wrote an economic paper on automation of labour markets. Decided I wanted to automate, not be automated.

[yuvileyris]

First I was interested into becoming a scientist with physics, but got a trainee on a Research platform where all Computer scientists worked on something physics relevant like Mars so my interest began there ^^

[Christina Zhu]

Made layouts for my Neopet!

[Anna]

Same here! Wanted to figure out how people were adding music and fancy backgrounds to their user profile pages.