Curious did any of you have a specific reason to learn how to program?

I wanted to be involved in aerospace but realised I'd probably never be an Astronaut, but i could learn how to write the software that controls the spacecrafts!

five years ago (I was 10) i found a tutorial showing how to create your own Minecraft launcher in visual basic by passing arguments to the official launcher
installed visual studio on each of my PCs since that day

@kalaba yeah I remember a lot of people at university started because they wanted to make games! 🕹

I started because I wanted to help people live better lives.
It was a choice between developing or becoming a doctor.

always been someone that wanted to know how something was made

My dad is a dev, so when I was about 11 I asked him if he could teach me some stuff and how to make simple games. First language I ever used was DarkBASIC. Still have most of those games laying around somewhere as well

@Badgerati must of been so handy to have a parent that was a Dev. I'm pretty sure my family don't fully understand what it is even do.

I started off writing code because of my dad as well. I used to go to his office as a kid and see him and others writing lines of code, and it sparked an interest from a young age. I just wanted to know how everything worked!

I always loved computers and technology in general. I wanted to learn to help develop or new machines or some useful programs. I've been in my course for about 2 years now and I've learned Java, JavaScript, MySQL, T-SQL, and I'm even going to learn a lot more from now on. Still hope to create useful things in the future *__*

@LMestre14 there always seems to be more to learn, learning to develop software is like falling down a rabbit hole 😅

In the 90s, my high school aptitude test had me pinned for manufacturing jobs. Somewhat fitting. I like building things, taking electronics apart, understanding how things worked. There wasn't a big push for programming at my school, so manufacturing was the closest thing they could come up with.

Then I went to tech school for video production, learned graphic design, read HTML 4.0 Bible front to back. A few years later, was a PHP/Mysql dev. I just like creating things and turning repetitive tasks into small programs.

@g-m-f there is definitely a push to teach children computing rather than ICT in school.

Government is finally catching on. Tools like scratch are a fantastic way to introduce people to the concepts of programming!

I wanted my own website after seeing Geocities advertised on a WebTV (anyone remember that?) infomercial. I learned HTML and CSS using a WebTV! ... There was no copy/paste. I had to write the HTML for web rings (anyone remember those???) on paper and then type it into the Geocities site. I can't believe I ever did that.