I learned about affiliate marketing and Wordpress. I eventually wanted to make all the font changes and background images with css and fell in love with it. Took a bootcamp from Nov 2014 - Jan 2015. Got a job in June and it’s been a ride since
Besides always having some interest in technology, what really got me fully over the hump was an interest in entrepreneurship after college. Software development has been the best expression of my interest in invention and making my own career.
When I was 9 we had a Philips G7000 (Magnavox Odyssey 2 outside of Europe) gaming console at home. My father bought a somewhat strange "game" cartridge: "09 Computer Programmer" and I wanted to see what this game was about. When starting it I was greeted with a blinking cursor. I tried to find out, what it does, so I started typing stuff from the manual... and changing/breaking it... until I was able to write my own little programs. It turns out I learned Assembly along the way.
One day, my father bought a Spectravideo MSX computer. My brother and I started playing with it, but at one point, my brother lost interest in those simple games, and I began writing my own BASIC programs.
When I was 7 years old, my mother gifted me my first computer.
It was an Intel Pentium 3 with 512mb RAM.
I really heated using the computer, it was too complicated, until I discovered
videogames on PC.
When I've got a copy of GTA Vice City from a friend, I really fell in love with the technology.
I became really curious about how the game was built and what was the purpose of the game files on the CD.
Now I'm 27 years old and I'm a developer since 23
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I took some computer courses in High School, and just took to it.
I learned about affiliate marketing and Wordpress. I eventually wanted to make all the font changes and background images with css and fell in love with it. Took a bootcamp from Nov 2014 - Jan 2015. Got a job in June and it’s been a ride since
Nice! I think Wordpress helped lots of people move from marketing to development.
Besides always having some interest in technology, what really got me fully over the hump was an interest in entrepreneurship after college. Software development has been the best expression of my interest in invention and making my own career.
That's a lons story that started at a friend's birthday. He had a computer. A few months later I had a computer too and I learned BASIC.
How much does your knowledge of BASIC affect how you think about the craft these days?
When I was 9 we had a Philips G7000 (Magnavox Odyssey 2 outside of Europe) gaming console at home. My father bought a somewhat strange "game" cartridge: "09 Computer Programmer" and I wanted to see what this game was about. When starting it I was greeted with a blinking cursor. I tried to find out, what it does, so I started typing stuff from the manual... and changing/breaking it... until I was able to write my own little programs. It turns out I learned Assembly along the way.
Found Visual Studio back in 2016 moving to version 2017. I'm still a beginner.
One day, my father bought a Spectravideo MSX computer. My brother and I started playing with it, but at one point, my brother lost interest in those simple games, and I began writing my own BASIC programs.
When I was 7 years old, my mother gifted me my first computer.
It was an Intel Pentium 3 with 512mb RAM.
I really heated using the computer, it was too complicated, until I discovered
videogames on PC.
When I've got a copy of GTA Vice City from a friend, I really fell in love with the technology.
I became really curious about how the game was built and what was the purpose of the game files on the CD.
Now I'm 27 years old and I'm a developer since 23