Earthling wrote:
How did you get into programming ImAnAspie and why do you like it?
I'm completely self-taught.
When I was in my early teens (~1979), I pestered my Mum almost to death into getting me a Radio Shack TRS-80 Pocket Computer and a book on BASIC. So she bought it for me as a Christmas present.
That same Christmas, we went on holidays to the MOST BORING beach on Earth and I had nothing else to do but sit down with my computer and book and learn BASIC. I learned it in a few days.
After that, I learned C and C++ and got into UNIX where I started learning about TCP/IP and used to write networking software for Sun Microsystems SunOS (later Solaris), OpenBSD & FreeBSD.
I also taught myself Java, LISP, (X)HTML, Python & BASH shell scripting.
What I love about programming so much is that you start out with nothing but an idea and end up with something that is extremely useful and you can tailor it to work and do whatever you want it to do.
It just comes naturally to me and no matter how long I go between writing code, I never forget it. It just makes sense!
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Your Aspie score: 151 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 60 of 200
Formally diagnosed in 2007.
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