We had a Texas Instruments computer when I was a kid. I remember we had to type up all the programs from a magazine in BASIC. Then if we wanted to run them again we had to either type them all up again or save them to audio tape. That's what really got me into computers. I didn't do much programming after that until I got to university. C++, Assembly, SQL, COBOL, Visual Basic, HTML, and Visual C++ were all classes that I had to take. I was never that great at it, but didn't hate it. I kind of wish I had committed more to it now. A little bit ago I started playing around with Python and the HIVE libraries that are available.
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Hive and Python are a great paring to get yourself programming again because they give you a purpose and goal to aim for. The people I think who struggle most to get back into programming or get into it to begin with are trying to "do programming" rather than "achieve something through programming" if that makes sense?
No, that totally makes sense. I've always said if I get back into programming I want it to be because I want to accomplish something, but I was never able to figure out what that something was. Eventually I found myself looking for an easy way to see who had muted my account and I didn't realize there were already tools out there, so I wrote a Python program to pull that info.