Why are you learning programming?

Disease is a program of life while programming life as a disease in programming.

it's all so clear now.

money really as i was fed up of outsourcing work whenever i needed some small program written. I thought learn to program, write it yourself and then get all the money plus i will be able to offer my clients more services. Though i actually found that i really enjoyed learning to program for its own sake - its like a form of artistic expression

>>it's all so clear now.

:)

>>i was fed up of outsourcing work whenever i needed some small program written


Yeah... I hear you. I have written several small programs to parse strings out of text files and regroup them as comma delimintated files so that they could easily be inserted into database programs.

Such a simple task probably would have cost me some major dollars if I had someone else do it.

I need to find more applications that I "have to" write to, because I actually had quite a bit of fun writting those programs and found the time to do it because they were needed.

yeah, it's fun writing little widget programs like that...

once i wrote a program that would actually write some arrays to a text file that could be compiled into a program that used them.. it was interesting.

I wanted to modify, sonic 2 for genesis. Thats why I began programming. I got a little fustrated when I discoverd this would take quite a bit, of monney.

on life

Lifes a game, I play to win.

a) I have to do it for college
b) I like doing it as a hobby
c) May do it one day as a career

It's fun to tell the computer exactly what to do, it's a great hobby, andone day I hope to make a carreer out of it.

Well, I like it because it is a good hobby. I will do this professionally some day, when I'm old enough, or something with computers at least..

and the added benefit is that it lets you become renown in a community such as this one as you get a ridiculous amount of posts and get disowned by your family because you're on it 25/7 (yes, that's right, 25/7, you were such an addict you added another hour onto the day, just to post 100 more times).

I initially got into programming because I wanted to make computer games. Specifically, I liked the creativity of designing paper-and-pen RPGs, but I found the medium inadequate for developing complex and organized systems (like those in computer RPGs) that I really wanted to make. So, I decided to try to learn to program.

I'm still doing game programming, but I discovered in high school that programming knowledge is also enormously useful in science. Since my career goals are mostly science-related, this was another major motivation for learning how to program, and the reason I moved from BASIC to C.

Basic is dead... start at PASCAL.

Perhaps you should have told me that 9 years ago. Anyway, QBASIC was preinstalled on all DOS computers back then, so it was in that sense an ideal learning tool: I could write the same programs at school as at home, and at friends' houses; no worry about nonstandard functions or graphics incompatibilities. The situation today may be different, but now that I know C/C++, who cares?

I chose other because all three options apply to me...

Oskilian