To give some context, I’m a developer myself and once I had a conversation with someone who has not “tasted” programming, but was wondering about passion and career. I was asked what I like about programming. My answer was that my interest in it came from writing small scripts when I was young to automate things.

Aside from being a career, I’m curious what got you into coding ?

    • @[email protected]OP
      2•2 years ago

      True. I usually tell people it is a good field, provided that they have interest. Then the question usually is how to be interested in it, and I just tell them to just be curious about how any app/software that they use works.

    • @[email protected]
      4•2 years ago

      I have the same trouble.

      “How do you get started?”

      Uh…get addicted to the dopamine hit when the bloody thing finally does what I wanted on the 1000th try. Is that not normal? Then I can’t help.

      “But how do you motivate yourself to stick with it?”

      As a kid, I had a Commodore 64, and a really nice wooden stick to play with. I spent my time about 50/50. Today, I don’t have that stick anymore, so I’m sticking with programming, at least until I find another stick that nice.