>> It's very possible that my impression is wrong or that I'd get different results talking to a high school CS class than programmers in their 20s and 30s.
> I don't know any programmers who didn't get in to programming that way.
My first attempt at programming was asking our TRS-80, in English, if it would make a laser sound. "Syntax error" was it's reply.
But yeah trading stories about mucking with CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to get games working is par for the course when I meet tech people in their 20s and 30s.
> I don't know any programmers who didn't get in to programming that way.
My first attempt at programming was asking our TRS-80, in English, if it would make a laser sound. "Syntax error" was it's reply.
But yeah trading stories about mucking with CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to get games working is par for the course when I meet tech people in their 20s and 30s.