[codeptualize]

I started quite young, around 7 or 8. Obviously nothing advanced or anything, just very simple visual basic, and messing around with some chips and a few LED's. Got into web design/development in my early teens, did a bunch of app development, bit of backend, now mostly frontend & design of web apps.

To me code is magical; Even the small things like seeing a button click change something, or even seeing LED's light up in the way you programmed them, it's magic!

What motivated me is to build things. Quite uniquely to code is that you can build amazing products with very limited resources, the possibilities are endless. If you have a computer you can build. I always wanted to build stuff.

Now at 29 it is still what motivates me, I still enjoy building things, seeing something come to life that I designed and built still gives me so much fulfilment and joy. Seeing (quite a few) people actually use the things I build and getting value out of them is even better.

I also do a lot of product management type work atm, but the times I actually get to design & build stuff I realize how much I enjoy creating things. Code is such a great tool.

I also still appreciate the magic of code, now mostly in animations, transitions and well designed and programmed apps and interactions.

[jraph]

This is almost me, without the LEDs and the management type work.

Since the computer was already there, building things on the computer did not require buying more things, and I could see the result immediately.

I would not say magic.