4 ms·
I learned to program :-) I've always been curious and somewhat technically inclined, but also the guy that would put on a tie (I can actually do three differen
by mixmax 18y ago
I learned to program :-)
I've always been curious and somewhat technically inclined, but also the guy that would put on a tie (I can actually do three different tieknots and a bowtie...) and go out and swing my arms madly around until someone pitied me enough to invest in or buy whatever I happened to be selling at the time. Worked pretty well too.
Then I started coming here, and realised that there was so much I didn't know, and that if I could learn it I would have a much easier time creating good products. Instead of the whole arm-swinging business to convince someone to program something for me I could just learn how to do it myself!
And so I did. And I realised that I should have done so ten years ago.
So thanks a lot, and sorry for all the silly questions.
- adsyoung 18y agoMe too actually. When I first started coming here I had barely written a line of code and was rapidly discovering my chosen career path of aerospace engineer was boring the hell out of me and not what I thought it would be. Then all of a sudden I found myself reading about programming non-stop, a good hint that a change is at hand! So I was able to talk my way into the software development team and have been learning like mad ever since, thanks mostly to this site. Even though I had little experience, the sheer variety of technologies and points of view I've seen here has made an enormous difference in getting me started.
- deleted 18y ago[deleted]