The first ten years of our programming lives

<p>This episode was inspired by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fPWr0d5zBE&ab_channel=JomaTech">Joma Tech's review</a> of his first ten years in coding. </p><p>Ben Popper shared  a fair amount of his coding journey through the series <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/tag/worst-coder-in-the-world/">Ben Popper is the Worst Coder in the World</a>. </p><p>Should you actually write out code on paper as some of us had to do? <a href="https://hackernoon.com/reasons-to-write-code-on-paper-57q3tpj">Maybe</a>.</p><p>Modding games gets people into programming. For Ryan, <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/8880/Freedom_Force/">Freedom Force</a> got him into Python. Today, it's <a href="https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/">Minecraft </a>and <a href="https://www.roblox.com/">Roblox</a>. </p><p>Want to jump start your career? Find a community on Discord or Twitter and make some contacts. The software industry is made of people. </p><p>Hackathons helped Cassidy find a deeper love for coding, oh and her husband too.</p>