Originally Posted by
Joe
For me it started with HTML and CSS creating basic websites. My obsession with Habbo when I was a kid lead me to want to create a fansite and this is something I tried to do time and time again. I never had much success when I was younger but started to understand HTML and CSS and the workings behind them but not competently.
Then I chose to take Computer Science as a degree and was thrust into a world of coding. I now can code a decent program in Python, C++ (despite hating it) and Java and have used a few different languages as well. The thing for me when completing coursework is the ownership of the program - what I've just created is absolutely mine and no one else's - there may be similar but all of this code is mine. I also enjoy being super anal with coding and I comment on nearly every single line to tell my future self what I was trying to do - even when debugging code, the console prints paragraphs of data that it shouldn't just so I can see the program working.
In terms of the thread, no one really inspired me, it was just the degree choice and really having to just get on with it. I do enjoy it now, though.