• Question: how did you get into liking computers

    Asked by rush519taro to Sophia, letiziaprotopapa, Karen E, Jo, Jack McKinlay, Henry D, bhaktishah on 7 May 2025.
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      Letizia Protopapa answered on 7 May 2025:

      Mmm, that’s a good question. I can definitely think of times as a child where I thought “I’ll never understand/like computers”. I guess things changed when I discovered programming in high school. I wouldn’t say I suddenly started loving computers, but I was definitely more interested. I saw the link between problem solving (which I always liked) and the way computers work and I guess that was it.

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      Jack McKinlay answered on 13 May 2025:

      I really loved video games as a kid, and still do! From there I started playing around with making excel sheets to track my games (as you do), and after that I started building macros for the spreadsheets. Then those eventually turned into building bigger code scripts, and before I knew it I was writing whole programs. So all I really did was follow things I was interested in and curious about, and now I’m here.

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    aureliabrzezowska commented on :

    I didn’t have much of my own tech growing up so I became super interested in things I didn’t have (as most kids do!) and started tinkering with them (mainly breaking them and putting them back together before I got into trouble.) I loved computing lessons at schools and could not wait for the next one.