How and when did you start learning to program? Share your story with us here!

Question

Your programming story

Answer 1

I star fourt years ago, programing Excel VBA, then I try some programs for desk, but didn't work. suddenly I run into html. And the magic happened, I saw my name at the screen and I realized I could program.

Answer 2

I was twelve, and my middle school had opened up an after-school course for learning Python 2.7 . I figured out that games were made with code, and so, I decided to join them. I was probably the worst programmer in there, even though we all started from the same intellectual baseline. I kept trying to learn after the course had ended within a few months, and eventually got about two-thirds of the way through CodeCademy's Python tutorial. I feel out of touch with programming for a while, until about a year later I returned to it, retaining barely any information. I redid the course to full completion, started writing my own programs from scratch, and continued. But then I asked myself, where to next? To another language, of course! CodeCademy only offered about four or five languages. However, I learned all three web languages and Ruby before I ran out of places to go. Suddenly, SoloLearn descended from the heavens and taught me almost all of the languages I know today. I still use every language I've learned for different purposes. For example, I'm learning about Genetic Algorithms with Python at the moment (my most sentimental language). I still continued with programming throughout high school, taking several computer science courses, and I was the top of my class.

Answer 3

I started when I was 26. I started so late because my parents couldn't really afford a PC or the net when I was young. I was interested in hacking , which led me to read the hacker manifesto which is when I found out I needed to know a Unix and programming.
So python was what was suggested so I went to YouTube and found this channel called thenewboston. And I watched vids on python and my journey started there. I fell in love with programming when I actually begin to see something I wrote come to life, and I realized this is what I want to do. Programming is a never ending journey I love it

Answer 4

I have started at age of 37 ...

Answer 5

I first got in touch with programming through university. Before that it was all black magic for me, but since I want to be a scientist I had to learn using tools for statistics, data analysis and stuff, which only had consoles. Forst I was really angry no one would just provide us with a nicely working interface program. Meanwhile I know that as a scientist you need to understand well how the data was treated and you need to be able to understand what a provided program does. In my second programming class I got really into it, I even made a small game in my break time. Because I enjoyed it so much, I decided to learn a more independent language.