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What got you into coding ? (aside from money) (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 ?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Getting old, "broken" computers running Linux was the first thing when I was about 11 or 12 years old. Then:

needing a way to keep them running
wanting ways to make running them easier
wanting those ways to be easier/simpler

Often this involved programming. Eventually I found out that companies pay money for this kind of thing.

But now I'm finding it difficult to find work which aligns with those original values. Getting paid means delivering what people will pay for, not necessarily solving problems. What got me into programming is probably what will get me out of it (profesionally, anyway).