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Odd/Fun Ways You've Learned Programming
mouser:
When I was a little kid first learning to program, my initial motivations were to play computer "games". I put the word "games" in quotes because these weren't the kinds of 100-person production quality games of today. We're talking about a situation where you typed in the 2-page game program code from a computer magazine for 6 hours in order to play it (text only).
This book was my bible:
Basic Computer Games
That book and my father's encouragement is what started me coding -- for many years after that my focus was on creating games. I spent a good part of a decade doing little else but creating clones of arcade games. My grand opus was a clone of q-bert that had my own invented cut-scenes.. I wish I still had a copy of that..
Somewhere around 1986, in my latter years of high school, I finished work on a hybrid text-graphics adventure creation toolkit, and send out some packages in the mail with demo disks to a few computer game companies to see if i could find a company to buy/use it. Didn't get much interest and just shelved it and went to college.
ewemoa:
When I got home I typed everything that was printed, but the last page was missing. It didn't print. Out of necessity, I wrote the end on my own... I had no idea if it would work, but at the end it did. I felt totally awesome.
-ecaradec (September 17, 2013, 02:51 PM)
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Nice!
Perhaps this idea can be reworked as the basis for a programming contest :)
wraith808:
I had a very simple program that I made for an RPG, and every time I'd learn a new programming language, I'd re-make it in that programming language with a few improvements. :)
Tuxman:
Hm...
(No, really, I started with Visual Basic. Don't ask why.)
wraith808:
I started with Visual Basic also. It's a common start.
...Well, professionally. In college I started with C and Pascal as my primary languages. Then professionally, I was writing for MStest which used something similar to VB at the time. Then to Delphi (so... back to Pascal in other words). Then to C++. Then to C#.
Another interesting way that I learned was via the Beagle Bros contests (in old fashioned BASIC with Assembler calls).
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