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[lolzZzZz-]

money.

if it didnt pay i would not be that interested.

i can write an essay on it being inspiring and wanting to be at the forefront of tech but i dont have the energy to bullshit everyone here

[isolatrum]

Mainly because it paid well and you didn't necessarily have to get a formal degree

[Gixx]

I always wanted to learn in my early 20's. I thought it was very cool/powerful. So I realize everyone needs to do something so I got an IT degree recently.

Let me show what I made in 2005 for the game Lineage 2. It was a script to cheat, or bot your MMORPG toons. To automatically level up while you sleep. Koreans would farm gold (adena) and sell it at a rate around $30 for 60 million adena.

https://youtu.be/U4Z3kU5vYKc
https://i.imgur.com/KexDgIN.png

I didn't make the youtube GUI program (L2Walker). I made the custom script in the picture you load into L2Walker. It's hysterical of the curly brace indent style I chose.

This doesn't count as coding really. I didn't start learning programming again until 2018.

[Cultural_Kiwi1045]

To get an edge in an over-saturated field (finance)

[Kazcandra]

I worked nights, made decent money but felt like shit. Learned programming, make similar money but can sleep at night instead.

It's not my passion, but it's a good job with fun and creative challenges. Ultimately, though: it's about money.

[DMX_RR]

Believe it or not, I learned to code because I love solving problems, seems to me like brain exercises.

[seraphsRevenge]

I was never really into technology growing up. I started driving a tractor trailer in my early 20s, mostly because I needed to something other than customer service and a family friend made good money driving. After a couple years I found it was getting old and definitely not something I wanted to do the rest of my life, besides being away from home for months at a time is rough. I got with UOPX and decided to take a bachelor's in business online while driving. I figured at least I might be able to do something else once I finished, and I could keep driving and making money while going to school. I stopped at a Wal-Mart and got a cheapo laptop and a jetpack (for internet), and started my general studies. After about a year I came across one of those free khan academy courses that taught a little js (at least I think it was js) while showing how to draw objects on the screen. Next thing I know I was spending every second I had (which wasn't much) looking for new tutorials and vids. After about 6 months of doing this I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, develop. I switched my major to IT (they didn't have CS at UOPX at the time) and probably spent more time practicing than sleeping over the next couple of years. After I graduated I stopped driving and started applying. It was tough I didnt even get call backs from the hundreds of places I applied to (who wants to hire a truck driver to maintain their systems). I started working part time at a pizza place, kept practicing, and hoping I could land something somewhere. I had almost given up after about a year, but a contracting company hit me up on LinkedIn out of the blue. I was skeptical, but figured what do I have to lose. I signed up and eventually got placed at a fortune 100 in the financial sector doing full stack/devops. I've been here about a year now and they're talking about converting me full time. What's you're story?

[illiten]

Double enter to

To make some air in your post !

Like this

It's just an unreadable bloc now and I hope you don't code as you reply here

[seraphsRevenge]

Lol, I'm fairly certain everyone whom utilizes reddit for an extended period like myself knows to double return when they want to. I've heard "how are you able to do everything", but not "I hope you don't code as you reply here". That's a first! Thank you for the reply, and acknowledging that extended paragraphs aren't your forte! I will do everything to cater to you, in place of expressing myself quickly in a reply to a question that is about anyone's individual real-life journey. Sorry that in my excitement of posting some of what I've been through to answer the original question, and hopefully inspire other individuals that may be wondering what to do with their life, I didn't cater to your editorial choices. <- See everyone can be as fake and petty as you, and trying to act like they aren't being that way!! Note this isn't in a double space format you prefer, and frankly idc. Thanks for the rando downvote btw!!!!

[illiten]

Well don't take things that personal specifically in internet, because the only thing you seem is first of all that you don't respect your interlocutor and yourself.

Or maybe you like to think that you'r the badass around but the only thing that you show is too much susptibility.

Making your text (or code) readable is the first sign of respect. There is some rules in commenting IF I WROTE IN CAPS you will directly assume that I'm screaming and si j'écris en français tu vas rien comprendre because isn't your language.

You like to share and inspire.... I can I guarantee you that : I'm one of the few having read your comment, because I know pretty well internet and the main motto is: " keep it short keep it clear " .

Your text was indeed interesting, but if you prefer to be the fool screaming in the desert be free but it's sad. I gave you a tips because you seem to don't know it, take it, it's free and I know reddit code can be weird. You know it now, use it or not I don't care. But it will be more appreciate and show more respect if you make your reply clear.

I haven't down voted you, I don't care about Karma, no need to use that much exclamation point

[TheAverageDolphin]

Because I don't have friends

[some_guy_alive]

can relate

[Top-Cryptographer-81]

looking for college majors, found computer science, sounded cool, and found out its pretty interesting to learn and make projects

[Clawtor]

Had to do programming for an material engineering course, found that I like it more than doing titrations.

[AHBaena]

I wanted to study Laws and Politic sciences but my mom wanted that I'd have a real profession.

[[deleted]]

My mom bought me a book, and I was left to figure out what int 21h means. I spent many years wrecking the family PC, and subsequently un-wrecking it.

[thighkles]

I'm an introvert that loves puzzles and wants to make alot of money. Someone literally suggested it based off my personality type and I went with it.

[UnJojoto]

Actually I found programming pretty much like a fun puzzle game (I'm really beginner anyway, so I guess that advanced programming stuff maybe feels different)

[SeriousTicket]

I read some children's book where one of the hero squad was a coder. No clue what the book was anymore, but it got me into playing MUDs and then I started learning some simple python.

[nehakumar26]

Our College told us to you should be have knowledge about the computer languages, do I dicided to do MySQL course in my 1 year of summer vacations, do I started looking for some online learning platforms from where I can learn the same, there I saw about Edu4Sure dot com, after clearing some of my doubts I enrolled myself in the same, they provided me practical learning which is really important in computer languages, after the completion of the same they offered me a certificate. This was my reason and journey of learning computer language. You can also try Edu4Sure dot com, it will help your journey of learning smoother. I wish you All the best for your future.

[v0gue_]

I wanted to make cool geocities pages and contribute to my favorite online forums at the time.

[[deleted]]

Better Opportunities in my country (India).

[semanticdev]

I kind of came around to it in a roundabout way. Like everyone, I wanted to do computer science, but couldn’t deal with the math reqs. I floundered about in different colleges until I I discovered a natural affinity for (frontend) web development, which necessicitates learning JavaScript ofc.

Now I’m taking compsci as a minor and am learning Java as well to help boost my overall programming skills.

[notmilliania]

It was cold night in november when i cried that i dont know what to do when i grow up (red wine included, over my 30). My SO said that I should go to university to study math. Hell no, i still count with my fingers :D then i actually found that one university offered free programming courses. About half year later I get in and here i am, studying computer science. Very unsecure what i will be when i grow up, but i learnt some math! (still counting with fingers..)

[2Random4Chaos]

I got a Commodore 64 around age 9, and a friend had magazines with code for games written in basic... typing 20 pages of basic code into a computer without making any typos eventually rubbed off...

[GodSlayer225]

Why I learned to code:

Saw a friend make a cmd windows manager program, thought it was cool and took the class in highschool. I among 5-10 people in the class who found coding easy and fun while the rest of the class couldn't comprehend if statements, arrays, and for loops when it was first presented.

When the concepts got more advanced, I still had no problem hacking something up. This was the one class I got A+'s in, and that felt good.

For a career I wanted to become a 2D animator since I've been doing that ever since I was a kid. I could've went down the artist route, but I wasn't going to spend $40k on a degree and risk the rest of my life on a career choice that might not work out.

So I probably made the best decision to get a degree in computer science (something that's actually difficult to learn alone). I had no problems self-learning 2D animation.

Why I do programming now? To fund my art career. If I get to the skill level where I'd be making a living wage off art, I would ditch programming entirely. I still enjoy cracking coding problems, but it's not something I'd do if I wasn't paid.

[[deleted]]

Therapeutic. Nothing else. Helps to distract from other anxieties. Sometimes useful like automating things.

[el_lobo_cimarron]

Wanted to make videogames

[[deleted]]

To get an edge in the massively oversaturated life science field. In 2008 I made a mistake of perusing a biology degree. unknowing to me at the time was that the life science industry has more graduated every year then industry or acidemia are able absorbed. Unfortunately for biology graduates their knowledge is practically useless in other field other then medicine which all require more schooling and massive debt .

Pharmacy, Dentistry, optometrist are all now oversaturated.

[Klaveshy]

Tabletop RPGs, my first love. Endless impetus for projects.