Where / How did you learn to program

profess · Post by **profess** » 2011 Oct 05, 02:02

Hi Everyone,

I usually post over in the Computers & Internet section with questions that aren't directly related to X2, but thought I would post here so more people will see it.

My Question; Where / How did everyone learn to program? Did you all learn at College / Uni, Work or Just for fun? Would be good to give a little info about it also.

I'll start - the various small amount of commands I know are self taught and through reading small articles here and there and LOTS OF trial and error.

Regards to all,

Osei.

[thanks fgagnon for the 'shadowing' idea. at least others will see it this way]

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2011 Oct 05, 02:20

And I'll move the thread back there, but leave its 'shadow' behind so more folks encounter it ... after I answer your query for myself:

First in University,
followed by decades at work, and
then expanded a bit as a hobby while working.

Post by **nikos** » 2011 Oct 06, 09:59

my story is here http://netez.com/2xExplorer/aboutme.html

Thracx · Post by **Thracx** » 2011 Oct 10, 15:28

I started programming mainly as a hobby while in High School and early in college - scripting stuff in my quest to customize Windows 98 or automate tasks. I will label Gaming as the gateway drug, as I grew up on NES and an IBM 80386.

Half way through college, I decided that my comparative advantage was indeed to be a Software Engineer. However, I'm still pretty sure I learned a lot more fiddling around with gcc and Visual Studio in my spare time than I did through any official academic channel. And even then, you don't really get good until you start working in the field and I was no different.

I think it's about time for Nikos to post a new About Me article - that page is more than a decade old now!

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2011 Oct 10, 17:09

I started programming manly, ehm, mainly as a hobby, too. My first "application" was a batch script that shut down Windows. I was experimenting with batch scripts for another while until I found out how I can use them for more useful tasks (my backup job is a batch script containing rsync calls right now); afterwards, I started with some more serious things like Visual Basic, macro scripting and stuff.

Today, I'm more into web scripting but still do some offline things every now and then ... mainly in C++ and mIRC Scripting Language.

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2011 Oct 11, 17:32

Tuxman wrote:Today, I'm more into web scripting...

Be not so modest, we knew you were responsible for this the whole time...

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2011 Oct 11, 18:04

Nah, the mentioned trojan has bugs and is made by copy&paste according to the decryptors. I would make it better.

RightPaddock · Post by **RightPaddock** » 2011 Oct 17, 03:04

From Dutch Mary Travis look alike in the applied maths department of a British industrial research establishment in the mid 60's - Ferranti Sirius Autocoder.

All down hill from there - Fortran on CDC, PL/1 & Assembler on 360, Algol-68 on Burroughs, C & asm on Digital, Interdata & Pyramid, Ada on Digital, Modula-2 on Vax. Smalltalk on Apple, C++ on Warp.

That'll do