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Ask HN: What piece of media got you interested in programming?

Post by flomk » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 3:54 PM UTC

For me I can distinctly remember watching Ferris Bueller change his absences[0], all from his computer at home.

Watching that scene was awe-inspiring and started me down the path of infosec that's grown into programming.

Curious to hear everyone else's.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_vLKlz2Mc

Re: Ask HN: What piece of media got you interested in programming?

Post by water8 » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 4:02 PM UTC

Modifying Halo 2 on Xbox Live to have massive auto-aim. At the time (2004/5) modding was still pretty new so it was surreal getting the attention of a world class player simply by editing some values in a hex editor. Computers are modern day magic to a lot of people.

Re: Ask HN: What piece of media got you interested in programming?

Post by majora2007 » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 4:39 PM UTC

VBA in Excel got me interested. It was very easy to build GUIs that did simple things. That started me off with a magnifier and registry cleaner application (way over scope for my skill level) and kicked off my interest in development.

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