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joebatesyesterday at 9:35 PM4 repliesview on HN

Programming mine in high school is how I ended up coding for the first time and led to my current career. Honestly a pretty good investment (from my parents) I'd say.


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beeandapenguinyesterday at 11:54 PM

Same for me, it was also my first time ever seeing code, and I still remember it well. While getting ready for swim practice in a locker room, my friend challenged me to beat his score on a button mashing game he programmed earlier that day in school on his TI-84. My 12 year old self was in awe of his BASIC skills.

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repeekadtoday at 12:34 AM

This new one has python, imagine

mrguyoramayesterday at 10:48 PM

Same.

I bounced off a python 2 tutorial and a C tutorial, but some random nobody's TI-BASIC tutorial that started really damn easy is how I became a Computer Scientist.

I eventually figured out python too!

I made my own game and got a little notoriety around the school for it.

w0myesterday at 9:50 PM

same. My first real exposure to coding was hacking Drug Wars on my brothers old ti-89 in math class.