[_dave]

I got my start in programming from Lua in 2007 because I got into Roblox back in middle school. I'm surprised it's still kicking in 2023.

I first had to take a "CS101"-style course back in 2011 in college because it was necessary. We were stuck in flowchart templates from our textbook for that. Next class we got to use Java so borderline imperative at the time. No wonder people are still confused at what classes and object-oriented programming is with as awful as these were. It was a while before Java 8 hit the streets.

In the end, I both loved and hated it. Hated it half because I still didn't know what I wanted to do or how to do it and half because making computers do my bidding felt more of my calling.