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by yoz-y 3565 days ago
I learnt by coding games. Granted, my first games were "find a number" and some text adventures full of gotos but still. When you are young you need some reasonably fast gratification. While I was hacking at my games (one unfinished after another) I was not aware about algorithms or what did the weird ^ symbols (in pascal) actually meant. But I saw pixels move on the screen and it was magical.