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Ask HN: What was the single best turning point in your life as a programmer?
Everyone has some pivotal moment in their career that propels their career in a positive direction. If you are a programmer or software engineer, what was that pivotal moment that made your skills increase in folds?
- radonek 3y agoLearning C. Never written any serious code in it, but still among most usefull skills to have.
- ggr2342 3y agoWhy C? What was so special about learning it? You got to fiddle with the computer's memory structure and pointers?
- beardyw 3y agoThe web. In the 90s I made myself 'the web guy' in the software company I worked for just by getting on it at home and playing with what tools there were.