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How did you learn to program?
Week 28 Group Rant
coumbole
7y

I was 11 or 12 years old, my dad had this policy that only *nix machines are allowed in our home, so I was rocking a Ubuntu pc at that time. I was messing around with it and tweaking some things here and there, but wanted to learn more. My dad showed me how to open python on the command line and gave me some simple tasks to do. Been hooked ever since.

PS. Still going by the same policy, even though I live on my own.

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  • 9
    7y
    Like father like son.
  • 15
    7y
    "only *nix machines are allowed in our home"
    Cool dad!
  • 12
    7y
    Parenting done right... 👍👍👍
  • 1
    7y
    Made my morning XD
  • 3
    7y
    Kids should learn to use a variety of machines, because this is what the real world is going to be like. I meet too many stunted devs who find it impossible to develop in the environment that they're supposed to be making software for.
  • 4
    7y
    I had windows too but my dad too pushed me to use *nix quite early.

    Thanks dad!
  • 1
    7y
    My first build was Ubuntu 8.10. Been windows since for a lot of reasons, but Linux has a special place in my heart.
  • 2
    7y
    @Charlaxy yep, I agree. It really paid off, since now in uni (computer science-ish major) a lot of my friends are in trouble because they are expected to work with command line tools etc which they find hard to get used to after only using windows their whole lives.
  • 0
    7y
    Is Macbook allowed?
  • 0
    7y
    @psfr937 yeah, those count and I'm using one myself as well due to needing adobe software.
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