Personally, I started off with Roblox back in the early 2010s, and taught myself Lua. I really liked those Tycoon games, and wanted to see how they worked.
I eventually found Minecraft (like every kid back in the day did), and learnt Java to make Bukkit server mods.
Around 2016 I thought websites were kinda cool, so I started learning HTML, CSS, and JS, and I’ve been in the web dev space ever since.
What about the rest of y’all? What’s your personal programming path?
I started 20 years ago when I was in the 4th grade. Asked my dad who was a software consultant to teach me what he new about web dev. From there I got interested in video game development. I dabbled in flash, game maker, and unity over the following decade. By the time I had my BS Computer Science, I was no longer interested in game development. But the passion for solving problems with code remained. So that’s what I do to make a living now.