Why do you code?

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tim
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Post by tim »

your lazy sami, lol!

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yea sami, get your own reasons :P
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Post by John Cartwright »

lol what an interesting topic.

I started coding about 4 years ago with pascal :S and then realized how stupid and useless it was I found myself getting into PHP, I duno how I got into it but I did. I code to this day to make a few bucks here and there. But mostly just as a hobby. Php is such a part of my life I find myself mispelling words like "mystery","myself" with mysql .. for example lol took me 3 times to get "myself" right. Just htought I'd share that
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Post by magicrobotmonkey »

geez phenom, you do it as a hobby and you misspell those $words? you must do it waaay to much!

I started (like everyone else) with html and now give me a language and I'll write your program. Of course, php is, imho, one of the more fun languages to write in. It does all the boring stuff for you. Which is why i consider myself very lucky to have job as a php developer. I planned to go freelance and thiese sorts of jobs seem hard to come by, then wham I found this baby. Yes! And I work from home. I've got job security and i can go whole days without putting on pants.
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Post by timvw »

I started when i was 9 or so, writing BASIC for a Tandy TRS80-2

And then i haven't touched a computer from my 10th till my 17th.

I discovered internet, and learned HTML and JavaScript because i wanted my own website. After that i went to the university where i learned Turbo Pascal, and got addicted to writing games in it (with some ASM code for the graphics)

Then i had a course on Java, but didn't like it very much because the graphics were slooooooooow ;) That is why i learned C / Allegro / Win32 API and a little DX.

But in the meanwhile i had made some friends that were addicted to TetriNet, and thus i got addicted to and we launched a website, tetrinet.be First the ladder was coded using Perl and flat files, but we switched to PHP and MySQL rather quickly.

These days i write code because:

I need it (I'm a lazy person, thus automatisation is welcome)
Someone needs it (And i need money)
I'm bored (And when i start coding, time flies by)
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