Games. It was my enjoyment of playing computer games which got me interested in computers and considering it as a career option.
I remember first learning to program in Q Basic in the early-to-mid 90's by borrowing books from the local library and copying the code listings to make little games such as a racing car game where the car was a hash character with a colon character each side for the wheels and the sides of the track were vertical pipes.
Of course much of the fun was figuring out how they worked, altering these programs to see what affect the changes had, as well as adding additional features.
When it came time to go to Uni there were no game development courses that I could find in my country, so I chose a more general "Business Computing" course where I discovered web development. The mixture of coding logic and visual creativity strongly appealed, and still does appeal, to me.
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Games. It was my enjoyment of playing computer games which got me interested in computers and considering it as a career option.
I remember first learning to program in Q Basic in the early-to-mid 90's by borrowing books from the local library and copying the code listings to make little games such as a racing car game where the car was a hash character with a colon character each side for the wheels and the sides of the track were vertical pipes.
Of course much of the fun was figuring out how they worked, altering these programs to see what affect the changes had, as well as adding additional features.
When it came time to go to Uni there were no game development courses that I could find in my country, so I chose a more general "Business Computing" course where I discovered web development. The mixture of coding logic and visual creativity strongly appealed, and still does appeal, to me.