Fellow coders, where did your passion for coding come from?
Mine was in school when I had to create a website and it was the best thing ever

Weirdly enough, it all began when I read Digital Fortress, by Dan Brown. - That was the spark that made me go to a CompSci college.

But the passion for coding came a bit later (first semester we were learning Erlang, which was pretty much a punch to the face. haha), when I was working with some C#/Python projects. Being able to actually see stuff working can make wonders.

Programming was pretty easy for me to digest when I learned it in school. But the turning point was when I discovered and started blogging. I slowly moved on to learning more about coding and making websites.

Your intrname is hysterical.

But same as you, I had a class that spent about a week on AIDS causing pure HTML sites. That introduced me to the world of programming and we're here today.

I studied philosophy undergrad and masters, but had always loved electronics (rf and microcontrollers and such). But during my master I took a job as a "web assistant" and had the best boss in the world who allowed me to explore and learn a lot. When I touched development (just a basic python script) I was hooked! The later decided to teach myself web dev and here I am!

@monzrmango Haha came up with it for my online know when gaming and have just stuck to it

@benj that reminds me that when I was studying on Canada, it was quite common to see people doing double majors on CompSci/Philosofy.

@DarkMelchiah sounds like Canada :)

Maybe that's why my former boss (Canadian) gave me a coding job when what I was studying was phi!

Probably hacking. As a kid that seemes so cool, and using the cli looked badass. I thought icould do anything if i could code

Got bored when I was a wee lad and started making minecraft mods with GUI tools but wanted to make something more advanced so I started learning to code

For love of logic and do things with computer other than wanking.

When my dad bought a PC we were the second family in my village owning a computer. Everything seemed to alien and complex. The most amazing part was the ability to transfer games via those huge black floppy squares. Then one day a friend [a kid in the other family w/ a pc] showed me he has a new MortalCombat game, but it was too big to copy via 5'' floppies. So a 3'' floppy drive we bought :) and the same pc, the same machine had extended its abilities just like that. It amazed me deeply. I got curious about how does that NC work, why do I have to pass '-a' argument to 'arj' command and wtf is that ctrl+j, the WHYs drove me. Imagine my face when we got win 3.0 a few years later :) a few years more passed and dad got a new pc from someone, good enough for win95. The gui was so futuristic and beautiful.. And a web browser was like a window to Narnia. I knew then CS is gonna be my thing :)

Passion for Robotics and AI.. favorite movie as a kid was ShortCircuit and iRobot, bicentennial man

When I first saw my friend tinkering with an arduino uno. Then I bought one of my own, and then started doing some basic arduino stuff

I just love watching stuff come to life, which is why I love jet engines and rockets too.

Also, programming is one of the few fields where you can achieve result entirely on your own and without requiring any further expense (other than buying the computer the first time), which is really great if you're on a budget.

I met someone that was a Supercollider programmer at a time when the career path I'd made in music was becoming a drag. He made crazy music while live coding. Live music coding didn't appeal to me, but C++ did.

I started making games with Game Maker a while ago. It had a nice drag and drop programming style. Then when I outgrew it, I switched to Unity and forced myself to learn C#. That's where I'm since then

10 year old me wondered how websites worked.
Downloaded SL, learnt HTML.

I enjoy creating things, and at 15 i decided to take IT at high school and BAM! learnt Java. Got irritated and went to C#.

I was annoyed at the long winded calculus problems I was doing at the time in high school so I decided to make my calculator (ti-84) solve them instead. The rest of my junior and senior year were spent improving them for other students to use.

I always an an attraction to computers in general, i think because growing up in the 90's we didn't have a computer at home so research for anything and stuff had to be done manually in the household encyclopedia. Computers were just becoming mainstream consumer products so almost everyone else I knew had a household computer though so I was jealous.

I took some programming classes in school and it was really easy for me. I started to notice how many things I do repeatedly on a regular basis that could be automated so I taught myself some scripting to eliminate the "work" in these tasks.

Unfortunately my family didn't support my passion for computers which kept me from going to school for it and I wasted time trying and failing to get another degree. When I came back to coding it took a long time to find someplace willing to give me a chance to prove myself.

@sylar182 and are you doing coding now?

@pionell some, but mostly web development now. My office is mainly a marketing agency but someone has to make the sites those ads lead to presentable and usable.

But my side projects I prefer something more SaaS related.