Programming

Had to learn Javascript for web development class.

In all seriousness, I found out about Nim from the debug log of a discord bot and decided to give it a shot. It's now my favorite programming language.

I learned bash instead of python because my 8 year old brain saw all the parentheses and thought "ew no"...

I learned a bit of KOBOL after hearing it was the weirdest, hardest, and most unused programming language back in highschool. But only really enough to do a hello world and other very simplistic programs. More because finding resources at that time was difficult.

Objects weren't properly saving in a game, so the developer showed me what code I could copy paste to enable objects to save. Much like Thanos, "fine, I'll do it myself".

Perl because a system I worked on was just a bunch of Perl scripts in a trench coat pretending to be a program.

I learned it because the ancient beast kept breaking because it just a bunch of Perl scripts in a trench coat cobbled together over generations.

Python. To write mods for renpy 'games'.

Might not be dumb, but I learned programming to create things and learn how things worked. Started with entering in hundreds of lines of BASIC printed in magazines, including debugging font typos.

Then learned MUF, or Multi-User Forth, a stack-based text language for creating text based dungeons, and managed to stop some malicious users spying and people's privacy in the server.

Every so often, I pick up a new language to test it to see if it does cool stuff or help me further learn more about how things function.

Because it was the new hotness

Same as everyone, to produce reports.

I was forced to do it during my conscription service to implement an excel merge in VBA because that was the programming installed on the system. Fuck VBA and the integraded VBA Editor in Excel

Needed to write a syntax highlighter for VB.Net but I couldn't find any weirdly written edge cases online, so I had to make some myself.

I learned Go because I really liked the keyword go

Because I couldn't find any dev to help me make the game I wanted to make.