Developing advice?

Mark73

To all devs out there, how did you begin your developing journey? What made you decide that you wanna do this and how did you start learning?

I would be glad to hear any beneficial advices 😃

datitisev

Relevant tweet 😛

tankerkiller125

datitisev Man.... That is so damn true.

nixpc

datitisev Yes and this reply really hits home

jordanjay29

Check out this discussion, it has some answers from our current team on there, too.

Mark73

jordanjay29 Thanks, it's pretty inspiring.

And by the way, I always see your community manager icon as a joystick

Ralkage

jordanjay29 this 😂 you might as well switch it now @jordanjay29 😼

tankerkiller125

Since my real reply isn't in that original discussion I guess I'll post it here....

I started getting interesting in programming and things of that nature when I was about 13 because I really wanted to make a custom Minecraft mod with friends. That took me into learning Java initially, then a personal event caused me to feel like I was loosing control of everything happening in life, if was in this time that I really took a deep dive into programming because it was the one thing I could in fact control. During this time I also found myself two AWESOME mentors who really helped upgrade my skills from "copy from StackOverflow" to real development skills.

Once I really started getting decent at some PHP I got added to a upcoming MC Server (that failed to launch twice) as their "SysAdmin" where I also quickly became head of website development. From there it just kind of took off. When I got to my junior year I took computer networking courses at the local career center until I graduated my senior year. It's there that I really feel in love with the SysAdmin side of things.

So I do SysAdmin stuff 80% of the time as my job, the remaining 20% is spent working on Flarum, personal projects, and the odd ball work project (mostly automating my job with PowerShell).

TL;DR: MC Modding got me interested, life event caused me to become addicted, dug in deeper afterwords.

Now how I joined Flarum is a story in itself (one that I have in fact posted)