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Ask HN: Self-taught developer What was the hardest part to get started?

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Re: Ask HN: Self-taught developer What was the hardest part to get started?

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This isn't going to be very helpful to you, so sorry for that...

But for me, the hardest parts of getting started as a self-taught programmer, was copying TurboPascal onto floppy discs without the teacher noticing, and retyping code-listings from books borrowed from the library.