I’ve always had trouble getting into coding/programming because I’ve never truly dedicated myself to it. Mostly, this is because I kinda always lose momentum to learn it. I’m a heavy FOSS user; I love coreboot/Libreboot and am interested in getting into firmware development. I’ve already helped test hardware for Libreboot and enjoy learning about firmware.
I have just started to cut out gaming from my life to focus more on this. Maybe I should start with Python? At the same time, though, I feel like I should start with C, but don’t want to jump the gun too quick.
Feel free to share your stories!
I was playing WoW and ket getting kicked out of Alterac Valley for idling. So I was like, if I stand in town and push a key every 9 minutes I could do this rep thing way faster. So I started looking up how to press keys without pressing them (circa 2004).
I figured out the key thing after a few confusing days, then slowly started scripting a path that would walk around the merchant areas and look like I was doing stuff. It was hot dogshit but once I figured that out I just kept writing more and more complicated cheats.
In university I had the chance to take real programming courses and by then I’d written hundreds of little scripts. Then I had the language to discuss my little cheats, learned about functions (I was using huge banks of hardcoded coordinates and delays in a giant while 1 loop.
Oh and I wrote a script to automate Ikariam, a fun lil web game and made it to the top 100 players worldwide. That was neat.
So in short, I learned to program to cheat at video games. Eventually stopped caring about the games, my game was cheating. Didn’t care if I got banned, could always jump to a new game because the real game was cheating.