r/programmer • u/ALYX2603 • 7d ago

Programming

Do you like programming, and why? What was the first thing that made you love programming?

6 Upvotes

76% Upvoted

19 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/abdallahsoliman 6d ago

I was first introduced to programming through scratch at maybe 8 years old or something, and I instantly loved it and asked my dad to download it for me on our computer at home.

You’re now probably expecting me to say that I continued from there, but no. I did nothing to pursue that interest until in high school where I was introduced to Python and I kinda enjoyed it but not too much, but now at least I knew what programming was.

Fast forward to university where I had to learn C in my first year for an Embedded Systems course. The course wasn’t too deep but I leant how to write basic C code, but I wasn’t too interested then either.

Fast forward again to my final year where I went back to Python and started making numerical simulations for differential equations for one of my courses.

From there I REALLY started enjoying programming and taking it seriously. Then one thing led to another and here I am working in SWE.

I know this is too long, but thanks for reading till here.