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Ben Halpern
Ben Halpern

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How did you get into programming in the first place?

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Finnian Anderson

Got a Raspberry Pi!

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Simon Porter

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

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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.

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Constantine Buzikov

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

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Alejandro Amador

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

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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.

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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.

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Rich Smith

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

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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 ^^

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Christina Zhu

Made layouts for my Neopet!

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Anna

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

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Nicholas Davis

I got into programming from art school creative coding classes, mostly using Processing.org, OpenFrameworks, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi. Now I'm getting into machine learning in various forms.

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Héctor

Copying POKEs on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

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Vatsal Manot

Jailbroke my iPod touch (back when I was 11), discovered that I could write and compile my own runtime extensions.

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Eric Bonow

8th grade Algebra, I had games like Tetris on my TI-83 & wondered if I could write a program that would show the "work" for the quadratic equation and synthetic division. It worked! :)

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Tim Severien

Me and a mate found out how to build webpages and started building HTML and CSS pages. We were both 13 at the time. The closest thing to programming was copying and editing snippets of JavaScript. At 15, I started studying “media technology,” where I learned various high-level languages.