What Inspired You To Became A Coder? 🤔

I've pretty much always found computers interesting and seen this craft as a creative outlet — but I didn't have a lot of exposure to this craft until taking a couple classes in university, still not thinking it would be my profession.

However, in starting my career in another discipline, I was drawn into software development as a clearly more creative pursuit than other things I might be doing as a career.

• 1 Games (I had some interest because I wanted to get into game development)
• 2 Hobby (Just my general interest in computers and how they worked, always wanting to know how or what)
• 3 Money (I heard lots of money could be made with this)

Mostly the series the robot and scorpion. After that i decided i wanted to be a hacker lol. decided to master cmd. I learnt a bunch of commands that was when i was 12-13years old(even though i forgot a buch of them lol). started learn c++ during school holidays. Now im learning web dev and pursuing my Bachelors degree in Information technology. hahaha

There was this game called COLOBOT, released in 2001. It was one of a kind, you are off to space expeditions, companied with Bots. But the catch is, you have to write code / instructions to command that bots, the syntax was very close to C++.

That's what sparked me, the game is now open source and free for everyone to play. If you don't mind the old and outdated graphics, I highly recommend. 😁

Since the beginning of my life I wanted to be a engineer. I was paralysed the first time I saw the green letters and black screen, and all those binary codes flowing like in matrix, the movies. I started learning by myself, JavaScript didnt exist back in time, so I was studying Pascal and dreamweaver. But, as a brazilian lgbtqiap+ kid and suffering with a huge adhd mental disorder, I was taught that stupid gay kids couldnt be working with that straight environment. Then I graduated in design, hated it, worked with lots of visual production, but always tried to achieve this dream. In 2017 I travelled to Thailand and met a few developers that could work remote and live in that paradise, then I joined a bootcamp in 2019 and here I am, working with muon tomography reading tons of IA data and displaying it with webgl. Its really hard actually because ppl dont really respect us from bootcamps, but thats it, every day a new war to lose and win

• Games: they just got me interested in technology in general. Always was a marvel to be immersed in something that allowed me to control things/characters on a screen. It was mind-blowing at the time.

• Hackers: the concept of hackers in movies also piqued my interest. It was amazing to see how people could do stuff on a keyboard and have it magically do stuff that affected people and companies.

I know now that the "hacker image" was a very exaggerated picture painted by the media at the time but it certainly inspired me to be more interested in computers.

When you code & build something tangiable, which is then used by end users, it gives immense satisfaction. And this satisfaction inspired me at first place & even now keeps me motivated.

For me, I always was into video games and legos. I wanted to make games. Though I have only dabbled in it and made a POC in the past few years, the creativity aspect still drives me in more aspects than this in my life.

It highly drove me last year to shift from QA/SDET (Staff Engineer) to Android development. I like making things that others can use to better their life in some way.

Mostly the series scorpion and the robot. I really loved when the tech guy in a movie does somthing expendable and thought of myself doing something expendable. Tried mastering windows cmd tricks at 11years old but didnt manage to retain most of them apart from shutdown/s lol. At 12 or 13 years I wrote my first line of code in C++ which was a cout statement obviously, then i started secondary school didnt write any line of code of code till form 3 when i started to learn adobe photoshop and this kinda reignited my passion for tech. and now i am to learning web dev tools whilst studying a bachelors degree in Information technology

Growing up I wanted to be an architect, until one day in class a computer technician came into the classroom to work on a computer, I was mezmerized by it. Eventually I learned their was a computer technology course offered at the high school I attended and I took it. It changed my life forever. I started working on Old 386 and 486 computers, learned how to navigate ms dos with commands. I didn't have an easy time with my studies, but when I had free me in the classroom, I was fixing computers instead of pc gaming most of the time.

Fast forward to college and I was taught visual basic. It was a different world, one that was intriguing, but difficult for me, because I had grown up with ADHD and I found it difficult to learn.

After that I took a C++ course years later, and while I had an easier time with it, I found myself slacking behind. Eventually I found out I had another mental disorder called bipolar disorder, and a few years later it was found I had Autism spectrum disorder. After that happened I'd be talking to my brother and finding out he was making a good living programming.

My brother encouraged me to look into programming, and it lead me to Colt Steeles course "The Web Developer Bootcamp" but before that I went around the FreeCodeCamp and Code academy websites, and when I seen how a page transform from text on a white background to a very beautiful page, it was mindblowing.

From 2017 til now, I've been on a up and down tumble, trying to stick to Colt Steeles bootcamp, finding others I could do after his for more practice like Angela Yu's "Complete Web Developer Bootcamp" and Andrei Negoie's Bootcamp. But Afrer multiple tries, and having to go through the newest edition of the course Ive gotten up to the database section on Colt Steeles Bootcamp.

I'm just now been catching up on my emails I've missed lately and getting back to the Dev site and I found this. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to keep moving forward and hopefully this year get further along in my course. I know it's 2024, Seven years after I started, but I know I'm going to succeed. With such a supportive family and many friends all over the net, I'll reach my goal.