To give some context, I’m a developer myself and once I had a conversation with someone who has not “tasted” programming, but was wondering about passion and career. I was asked what I like about programming. My answer was that my interest in it came from writing small scripts when I was young to automate things.

Aside from being a career, I’m curious what got you into coding ?

  • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I have the same trouble.

    “How do you get started?”

    Uh…get addicted to the dopamine hit when the bloody thing finally does what I wanted on the 1000th try. Is that not normal? Then I can’t help.

    “But how do you motivate yourself to stick with it?”

    As a kid, I had a Commodore 64, and a really nice wooden stick to play with. I spent my time about 50/50. Today, I don’t have that stick anymore, so I’m sticking with programming, at least until I find another stick that nice.