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Discussion on: What was THAT moment you understood you wanted to become a dev?

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Riekus van Montfort

First dev steps:

  • changing the sounds in snake by altering some lines of BASIC
  • building a couple of stupid games with nifty animations in Flash
  • making a couple of websites for my bands

I think the first time I fully realized the potential was when I built a message board for my secondary school year club in Perl. People could actually interact and share experiences through an online platform. That's when I came to understand that the web is actually for people