That process, the act of programming is something that I need to do.
My feelings exactly. I can't not program. If I'm burned out with some complex work-related problem during the day, I can still catch myself fiddling around some random unrelated little code that does something "cool" (whatever might be cool for me at that moment) in the evening.
I started programming in elementary school (10yo), when I got a C64 computer, which was very popular at the time. BUT, I got it with a disk drive (1541-II drive, which cost more, and had more CPU power than the actual computer), and all my friends had tape drives, so I couldn't exchange games with them..
So I read and re-read the owner's manual, which was in German, and I didn't really know German .. so I would type these BASIC examples and try to figure out what happens. I think one of the first programs I wrote and understood was a variation of "guess the number" game.
That process, the act of programming is something that I need to do.
My feelings exactly. I can't not program. If I'm burned out with some complex work-related problem during the day, I can still catch myself fiddling around some random unrelated little code that does something "cool" (whatever might be cool for me at that moment) in the evening.
I started programming in elementary school (10yo), when I got a C64 computer, which was very popular at the time. BUT, I got it with a disk drive (1541-II drive, which cost more, and had more CPU power than the actual computer), and all my friends had tape drives, so I couldn't exchange games with them..
So I read and re-read the owner's manual, which was in German, and I didn't really know German .. so I would type these BASIC examples and try to figure out what happens. I think one of the first programs I wrote and understood was a variation of "guess the number" game.