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Want to share my first hand experience as a kid of a programmer. My father was a programmer in 70' to mid 90'. He would had loved for me getting into the topic
by cryo 6y ago
Want to share my first hand experience as a kid of a programmer.
My father was a programmer in 70' to mid 90'. He would had loved for me getting into the topic as well and showed me various things like early VESA programming and simple games in the 80' (in Germany GDR on a self made computer wired to a color TV). But programming and how it works didn't caught my interest at all - zero. I was completely hooked by the graphics and games though.
In the early 90' after the fall of Berlin wall, a friend of my dad gave me 3D Studio for DOS on 14 floppy discs, and oh' boy this changed my life.
Started a career in the 3D film industry and it was 20 years after my childhood that I caught interest in programming. I was blown away by what the programmers could do with the 3D software Maya and slowly was dragged into it and the curiosity never ended.
Nowadays I'm mostly a programmer who's also interested in graphics. Have worked on various commercial products with embedded firmware, C++ GUIs and Web/JS projects.
I'm a programmer not because my dad showed me that stuff in my childhood, I got here out of an coincidence of getting 3D Studio for DOS.
Anyway, my dad is glad how it turned out in the end :)
- stevage 6y agoI can relate to some of that. My dad, who was a programmer amongst other things, tried to get me interested in electronics, but it just never really caught on for me. Whereas programming I was pretty hooked from the start. I did lots of BASIC and Pascal. He tried to get me onto C, but I was reluctant, although I do remember him explaining pointers (I was maybe 10?) and it finally making sense. Most of the learning I did along the way was driven by me though, going to him when I got stuck. Now I'm approaching 40 and a full time web developer.