Why did you learn to code?

Intellectual curiosity. As soon as I started using computers, I got hooked and wanted to learn how they worked and how to control them.

I've wanted to be an inventor ever since I was 5 years old. So attempted to build things by taking apart whatever I could get my hands on to put them together as something new. I was also in the robotics team in middle school where we used a lego device called the RCX and NXT as a microcontroller for robots. I was given my own eventually from my parents, but it was expensive to buy more parts for it.

When I was 14 and a freshman and high school I met an older kid who could code. He built a command-line tool to bypass the minimal security we had on our school server at the time. After seeing that I was hooked. This is when I first realized there was a medium where you could do invent new things without spending any money on buying parts. So thus my journey began.

I wanted to create a video game since I was... maybe 8?

My parents offered me a book for my 14th birthday to learn C, just after buying a computer.

I loved every minute I spent on this book. I was hooked. The result: a textual adventure where you could be a dwarf with an axe.

A dwarf! With an axe!

I thought it was the best game ever 😁 it wasn't the case of course, but does it really matter?

Like many kids I enjoyed video games and was curious how they were made so when I was about 9 years old I asked my parents for a few books for Christmas. They didn't know what they were looking for so they got me html and php books. Even though I couldn't make video games with the books I was hooked and I still am 21 years later.

Intellectual pastime and to create “games” for my kids. I took it on as a brief hobby and had fun but I also (literally) threw my mouse against the wall in frustration (as a grown man) trying to do some Python tutorial.

I don’t code much anymore and focus on the start-up, micro saas. I completely consider myself a “non-tech founder”.

I saw an article that stated the Flappy Bird made 80k a day in ad rev.
Been coding ever since.

I started working in a warehouse for my first paid job when I was a teenager but I was pretty good at programming already, so I ended up building one of the first ecommerce sites in Italy for the company when I still lived there, one wholesaler of computer parts.
My first step as a paid programmer where with classic ASP.

I learned so I could automate some work in my non-tech job. I started with Excel and WordPress and then slowly branched into CSS, JS, Objective C, then other domains as a professional dev.

The very beginning promise was just automating tedious stuff and that's still one of my favorite kinds of programming to do.

A bit of frustration, after paying a dev and got nothing, I decide to do it myself. I’ve learn vanilla js, react, node js and react native so far.

Well, I just learned it to get a well-paid job and finish college, nothing crazy, but I've always had this feeling like: "If I can code I can create anything and get rich". My needs kind of pivoted now though :)

I started as a child who wanted to be able to make my own stuff. My Dad had these computer magazines with programs in them which I'd enter into a Commodore 64. Pretty soon I was trying to write my own programs...

I was super interested in making stuff with my thoughts alone, and not with physical labor, which is what coding basically is. Also, I hate doing stuff more than once, which is also what coding provides.

Mainly to provide a better life for my growing family. Taking a look back on my younger-years of hacking PSP's, iPhones, and Xbox's; I really wish I would've started sooner.

When I was around 14 years old I wanted to make computer games, which lead me to start googling. After learning a bit of C, C++ and C# and making projects in them, I started learning languages like JavaScript and Python, because I'd always wanted to start my own business.

Overall I'm super happy that I decided to learn programming. It has turned out to be a really good skill to have. I can automate tedious tasks and make my life many times easier with the added benefit of being able to make my own startup from scratch :)