What inspired you to learn how to program?

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What gave you the idea to start programming? Why did you stick with it? What do you like most about it? I''ve been wanting to make games since I first got my hands on a controller (3 or 4). After hours of playing games I thought: "Hey, I wish I could do that." And now I am! I stuck with it because I enjoyed making rink a dink I/O programs. I like the fact that someday, when I know enough about programming, I''ll be able to make some neato worlds. ............ Guardian Angel Interactive
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The sad truth is when I was in the underground against AOL I wanted to make an AOL Proggy. I started to study VB but never made one cause I lost interest to fast. Then I stopped for a while about programming then I got into game programming. I haven't made made anything useful but I managed to make a program that got me an A on my book report .

Edited by - ARCHIGAMER on July 11, 2000 9:02:10 AM
I wish there was a button on my monitor to turn up the intellegince. Theres a button called 'brightness' but it doesn't work
I took a fortran class and it was a lot more fun than my engineering classes (that and I didn''t suck so bad at fortran) so I switched majors.
Mr Bill Gates the rich man inspired me to get into programming. When I was younger and microsoft bashing is not as popular as now, the success story of Bill Gates makes me admired him and so motivate me to program.
I really dont know , I dont even know the exact point when I started programming . One point I was typing code form those ZX spectrum game magazines , the next moment I was modifying little things , and the next thing I knew , I was doing everything from scratch. I had no idea I was programming until my high school teacher told me

There are only four types of men , RichMan , PoorMan , BeggarMan , Thief........
I was influenced by the Ghetto you ruined.
I wanted to make a ad&d game... however... now I just want to make FGElements type demos it appears.
"If you build it, it will crash."
Duke3D, specifically the BUILD editor. I got so good at making maps (from a technical standpoint), that I wanted to make "more than just maps."

The first real program I made was a Duke3D launcher in VB. It had a bunch of checkboxes and so on to avoid having to type in tedious arguments in DOS. I also added a feature that renamed demos (remember demo1.dmo ?), and one that could extract files from duke3d.grp. Oooooooh, I was quite the intrepid programmer back then.
i had a ZX81 computer as a kid. It was kinda cool, but i got into games coding MANY years later after playing Quake 2 for the first time, and seriously aftre buying the first gurus book by Andre La Mothe.

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All these stories are fairly interesting....I hope we get more!

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Guardian Angel Interactive
what made me start programming?
i really dont remember, perhaps the fact that i was bored or somfin, but that was long ago
then i slowly went outta my mind as i kept getting more addicted to programming (as you see now, i''m totally outta my mind)

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