Back in the mid to late nineties I used America Online and the warez chat rooms. I found out Visual Basic was used to create bot programs and now I work for a big tech company.
Always been a bit of an introvert and loner. Got fascinated by computers and games and wanted to know how they worked in detail. Had good grades so got into a 5 year Computer Science and Engineering program, landed a job before I even graduated.
Making games, which, I’ve come to discover, is basically the Santa Claus of programming because most professional developers that I know started for the same reason and absolute do not program or develop games.
Same. I wanted to make video games… until I found out how terrible the working conditions and pay are.
I don’t really remember. I guess I saw some cool stuff done with programming and wanted to make those things toom So I learnt Python.
I got into programming via, I kid you not, Second Life.
Wanted to animate some objects with the built-in scripting language. Turned out I was pretty good at it.
Fast forward 15 years and I’m having a decade-long career in software.
