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How did you learn to code?

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-29 22:00

How did you learn programming?

[ ] Taught yourself (ie. just experimenting on your own with computers and discovered coding)
[ ] Educated at school
[ ] Tutorials from a book or online
[ ] OTHER (specify)

The first one is for me.  I discovered QBasic when I was like 12.  Good times man.  My first programs were terrifyingly crappy but I loved coding instantly.  I think that teaching myself QBasic just by experimenting and looking at the syntax in the little Help guide built into the IDE was probably the most fun I've had with a computer (is that sad or not?).

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-30 4:54

Taught myself/books. Any other way (like school; we managed to cover a stunning one tenth on the K&R in one semester) is a waste of time.

Tried C++ at first when I was young and excited about the idea of game programming but I gave up after a month.
Then, a year later, I read SICP. Then I learned C(K&R), then PSP+MySql :(, then Haskell(YAHT). And PASCAL somehow came along when I had to write some homework in it. Switched to Lunix in the meantime. I just began experimenting with Erlang and JavaScript recently.
Funny thing is, now that I look at this, I remember myself 18 months ago, when I was like ``oh my god how do these people have mastered so many languages I can't do anything beyond LISP''. Heh.

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