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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by gnutard to c/[email protected]
 

I've always had trouble getting into coding/programming because I've never truly dedicated myself to it. Mostly, this is because I kinda always lose momentum to learn it. I'm a heavy FOSS user; I love coreboot/Libreboot and am interested in getting into firmware development. I've already helped test hardware for Libreboot and enjoy learning about firmware.

I have just started to cut out gaming from my life to focus more on this. Maybe I should start with Python? At the same time, though, I feel like I should start with C, but don't want to jump the gun too quick.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Back in the day - it was around 2003 - I had a band and I wanted my band to have a website. That is when I installed Frontpage which let you design it with drag and drop. I had a menu which I wanted to show on each page, so I used serverside injection which Frontpage offered to do that. Later I found out that you tan even dynamically change the menu to highlight on which page you are if you do it with PHP and to a '[HTML_REMOVED]`. From there I added more dynamic things until I had some software on my hands.

But this was not the first time I got into coding actually. First time was around 1992 when my dad bought me an Amiga 500 and it came with the AMIGABasic handbook. Back then while most of my friends only used it for games, I somehow got interested in trying to make the computer do what I want. So I wrote some small games, some animations, even a book lending management program. But after some years i stopped being interested in computers until ten years later.