I learnt to code primarily by writing IRC bots for these groups + wrote an auto-trading FXP client in C++ that looked for pres dropping in top site channels, an

I learnt to code primarily by writing IRC bots for these groups + wrote an auto-trading FXP client in C++ that looked for pres dropping in top site channels, and automatically FXP couriered to other topsites. I wish I'd know back then (13 years old) what I know now (39) in terms of even simple things like linked lists, linear programming, estimators, etc, could have dominated. The "hardcore" in the scene would actually set up shell boxes and write a bunch of shell scripts to do auto trading. That also piqued my interest in learning Linux and Bash scripting.