Mine story dates back to 2018,at that time I was a crazy mobile gamer.
Most famous mobile game at that point was Clash of clans,me and my friend were just browsing YouTube for gaming content
Then we saw a video,whose title was "How to hack gems in clash of clans".This was the starting point for my coding journey, thought all it had was a app that manipulates game data locally
At that time I didn't knew about hex values,so i Googled it,not that i understood anything by looking at results,so my interest leaned towards learning how the game can be hacked.Along with my friend I did some research and found out that online games can't be hacked with our peanut sized brains.After this I got more interested in how the software is built and how we can create something like this.This is how it started for me,what about you?
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I cannot tell nothing about programming because I do not know it and in realistic never tried. I can tell about html+css and the moment I started it was just html. I stayed a lot with MS Frontpage (I do believe it was Frontpage 2003) for more than 7-8 years. I moved it when it started to be completely outdated with the code and just tried to type in Notepad. Remember the time when lot of websites have the badge "Made with Notepad" means no any visual editor is used.
Once, I met this guy who was programming and we played in same band. He was so proud of being a programmer and always said “you don’t know whats array?” Or something like that. It made me sick, his arrogance, so I started studying Java and databases, then went to JS etc. and thats how I get this isn’t so tough
I’m a tinkerer.
I gave up gaming when I was a young teenager, concentrated on studying and then just started getting into coding - I think tinkering on Myspace was also a reason why I got interested in programming.
I had interests in computers since very young, but I mainly got into programming from Junior-hi (that is from 7th to 9th grades) which had a special program where students are allowed to come up with their own "research theme" and work on it for a semester every year. There were cases of learning to code was the theme, so I chose it as my theme; that was where it all took off.
Durinig quarentine (early 2020), I got pretty bored and just really wanted to learn something new. I still remember my first site, where I used padding to center things 🤦♂️. And yes, HTML was my first "language" (pls don't get annoyed by that), I learnt CSS in the weirdest way. Back I used the style tag to style things, and I didn't even know that CSS exsisted. When I did some research and decided to "start" learning CSS I realized that I already knew it!
Our father brought an discarded industrial control computer (far less powerful than today's embedded devices) home for us when we were 8 to play with. It had a dual line 8 char 7-segment display, 3 8 bit registers, a rather simple reduced instruction set and a minimal r/w non-volatile memory, less than 1kb, if I recall correctly. We taught it connect-4. Later, we got a Schneider Joyce and a few years after, an Amstrad PC10. That's how I got into programming.
As the story I listed on my website goes, and as it so went all those years ago...
I was like seven or eight and I had received a copy of Minecraft (now Minecraft: Java Edition) and the most recent version was like 1.8 or something.
I enjoyed the game, but one day I was snooping around in File Explorer and had navigated to the Minecraft folder (
%appdata%\.minecraft).I just kind of wanted to investigate so I opened random files, and the one that struck me was a Java Archive (
.jar) file.As expected by most people except me at the time, it was full of nothing, complete rubbish-text. But, that made me curious.
I learned about executable files and binary and eventually madey way to actually learning how to code.
I started actually programming when I was around eleven. I can't remember.
Like a lot of people, it was gaming for me too. I played a lot of games as a kid, and looked up to game developers, but was too lazy to try to learn programming... until one day.
I think it was summer vacation after 8th grade, I started writing scripts for Gary's Mod to impress my friends. It took forever and they were really bad, but I got better, branched out into making Second Life scripts too, took an online Java class in school, read a book on PHP, and just kept going from there.
Somewhat by accident. Taught myself how to program on an HP 2000 minicomputer, which I dialed into using a Teletype Model 33 and a 110 baud acoustic coupler modem. I had the HP BASIC reference card, and started modifying Oregon Trail. (I didn't realize, at the time, that the copy of Oregon Trail was the one shared by everyone on that TIES timeshare computer.)
Heartfelt gratitude to Bill Heinemann, Don Rawitsch, and Paul Dillenberger. Never met them, but I was a direct beneficiary of their endeavor.
Later that same year, I started playing D&D. If not for that initial experience programming, I may have wound up a proprietor of a friendly local game store. Which wouldn't have been bad, either, but is a much more competitive market.