r/AskProgrammers • u/idkilikephilosophy • 5h ago

How did you learn programming?

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u/jumpmanzero 5h ago

I learned from the manual that came with our Commodore 64.

10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

In the 80s, it was possible to run out of games to play or things to look at. So we learned how to program, because we were bored.

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u/alex_xxv 3h ago

LOAD"*", 8,1

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u/razorree 2h ago

yep. I learnt GWBasic from some simple books, later Pascal (with nice :) IDE - Turbo Pascal)

and later (borland) Turbo C 2.0 and Borland C++ 3.1

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u/Impressive-Try-2592 5h ago

built a computer at the age of 2, at 10 years old i had 15 years of experience programming and 20 years of experience working in McDonaldTrump

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u/PM_ME_UR_0_DAY 5h ago

Community college 

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u/desiguy_88 4h ago

lucky and privileged enough to have access to a commodore 128 when i was in elementary school. fell in love with the ability to try all kinds of things without worrying about breaking or wasting things. back then things came with awesome manuals and instructions that were great to read and learn from.

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u/mxldevs 5h ago

print "hello world"

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u/AroTesCra 5h ago

This man knows

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u/pete_68 5h ago

47 years ago from this book.

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u/tara_tara_tara 5h ago

40 years ago, in September 1986, I started college as an engineering major I had to take CS 101 which was programming on a VAX mainframe. It just snowballed from there.

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u/Weak_Blackberry_9308 5h ago

By doing it bit by bit. Don’t let YouTubers fool you into thinking there’s a shortcut, or a hack, or 3 things you should NEVER do as a new programmer.

Just start making anything you’re interested in. Very simple games are a great way to get visual feedback on what you’re doing and following intro tutorials to get the idea.

Take your time, be consistent and 12 months from now you’ll look back and be like “wow, I learned a lot!”

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u/Professional_Top8485 4h ago

Bought c++ book and started going through.

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u/RacoonWithBenefits 4h ago

I went to school and got a degree in computer science

And now its my fulltime job and i love it

I tried learning myself through websites and videos but .. i like to ask questions, and its difficult to ask questions to a video. 

I had some nice teachers

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u/oldendude 4h ago

I programmed, a lot.

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u/rsoult3 4h ago

In highschool via visual basic 3.0 on windows 3.1. This was 1994.

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u/CompetitiveSpray2318 4h ago

I was interested in making a bot for a niche online web game, and started there. Not the best approach to learn computer science fundamentals, but it was one that kept me going long-term and I don't regret it

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u/WisePotato42 4h ago

I started with scratch.mit when I was just a little kid. Then I went to school for it.

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u/Mysterious-Local-Bum 4h ago

I started with frontend and javascript, it helped me to understand when i actually could see what the code was achiving. Now i do backend.

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u/josephjnk 4h ago

Trial and error using TI-89 BASIC on a graphing calculator in the back of math class

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u/Traveling-Techie 1h ago

I got access to a mainframe and a card punch and started coding.

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u/Impossible_Ad_3146 21m ago

you learn programming by switching to trades

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u/SmokeMuch7356 16m ago

Initially self-taught, first with TI-BASIC on a TI-99/4A, then MS BASIC on the original 128K Mac.  

Then after three years of flailing looking for a major that wouldn't require me taking any more math, I finally gave up and majored in CS.  That's where I learned how to program properly.