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Got a Raspberry Pi!
I bought a copy of C++ Primer Plus as a freshman in High School, absorbed it.
Got one of these for Christmas when I was 5.
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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.
Boss asked to do some stuff that could not be done without coding. I was support back then.
I always wanted to create video games since early age : ) but I changed my mind and end up as Front-end Engineer
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.
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.
Wrote an economic paper on automation of labour markets. Decided I wanted to automate, not be automated.
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 ^^
Made layouts for my Neopet!
Same here! Wanted to figure out how people were adding music and fancy backgrounds to their user profile pages.
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.
Copying POKEs on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
Jailbroke my iPod touch (back when I was 11), discovered that I could write and compile my own runtime extensions.
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! :)
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.