To all the experts or above (or if you feel like you've gone far with programming) seeing this blog: Who got you into programming? In other words, who introduced you to coding?
I know that as a pupil it's kind of wrong to say this, but isn't it a crazy feeling thinking about who got you into all of this and how far you've gone? Also, what inspired you to become a good programmer? I would love to hear your stories :)
Had CS in my high school, kinda liked coding but didn't knew site like these existed. Then one day a friend sent me a problem to solve, I solved it and it felt good. Coding from then onwards.
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I was actively participating in math olympiads, with pretty good results. This was until I switched to grade 9, when the tests got significantly harder, that I didn't have chance to get in top. That time, I was familiar with the basics of python and C++, and that made my transition in Competitive Programming a lot easier. azizbeksheripboev07 was the one who guided me into Codeforces, tought me how contests, judge work and etc.
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I am a CS student who knew nothing about PCs except for gaming. In my first year, a friend of mine (from a different college) introduced me to CF/CP and invited me to join the community training. And here we are.
Shout out to Flashaaa
My older brother Mehdi313
My father introduced me to programming around 2011.
My source of inspiration has always been not easy to put into words, but I recently read bashkort's post where he did it nicely, and my story was quite similar: I was impressed by how a computer is so much faster than me, but it doesn't understand anything, and I can instruct the computer what I want it to do, and, voila, I have both my analytical skills and the speed of my computer on my side. I was, and am, also attracted by the level of detail and rigor one needs to maintain while explaining to the computer what should be done. (In this sense, to be honest, I feel a little bit sad, or envious, about the recent rise in the usage of modern LLMs with which a 10-year-old kid can deploy a website with an online game in a couple hours that would take me several days of work — maybe because there were no such tools when I was 10 years old, maybe because I feel like the joy of programming a computer is slowly being taken from me by more powerful computers, and possibly in ten years the profession of a programmer will seem archaic same way as we now consider the scribe or the typist profession archaic. And yes, it'll be depressing for be if technical mindset eventually turns out to be useless for programming, and everyone will be able to program anything without any hard work and learning, simply by knowing which exactly two sentences of prompt to say to a cyberbrain.)
I've gone pretty far with it, but I'm looking forward to learning and achieving much more, of course! The worst thing you can do is to freeze in resin, turn into a fossil and stop improving. Even if the technology leads the art that we all dedicate our time to on this site to a new stage of development.