To give some context, I’m a developer myself and once I had a conversation with someone who has not “tasted” programming, but was wondering about passion and career. I was asked what I like about programming. My answer was that my interest in it came from writing small scripts when I was young to automate things.

Aside from being a career, I’m curious what got you into coding ?

  • @MrOxiMoron
    2•8 months ago

    Yeah, scripts to automate things. Especially the boot procedure in DOS, to allocate the memory in the right way depending on what I wanted to do.

    Had a 27mc linked to my pc to download mp3s at 800 bytes a second and it needed some specific things to function.

    Then came the internet and I started my computer science education, learned to program for real then, but not a lot about internet and web scripts. Taught myself html, CSS, flash, javascript, PHP, CGI and later Python and everything related to the hosting of those things.

    And that’s what I still do, teaching myself new web related technologies or even re-educating myself in old ones (javascript!)