# My programming story

DevFeed: [My programming story](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/my-programming-story-37316.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://muffinman.io/blog/my-programming-story/>)

Author: Stanko

Published: 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Stanko Tadić](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/stanko-tadic.md>)

Topics: [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/css.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [css](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [games](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/games.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [story](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/story.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

A personal account of the author's path into programming, beginning with BASIC on a 286 PC and progressing through game-making ambitions, early web projects, university, Linux and open-source work, and a career that moved from PHP development into frontend development.

## Source excerpt

This was intended to be a single paragraph in the post I'm still writing. It ended up much longer so I decided to publish it on it's own. So without further due, I present you my programming story. Origins # I got my first pc when I was four, shiny 286 with a color monitor! My father (who knows nothing about programming) showed me BASIC and infamous GOTO. My first programs did nothing more than printing simple messages or adding numbers up. It was fun but playing games was even more fun. Following years I spent playing games, but at some point I started thinking about making one. It is the main reason why I ended up programming and still is. Few games were made, but nothing worth mentioning (I still have unfulfilled wish to make retro like games, but utilizing modern hardware to give 'em a twist). Then dialup came along and I got interested in websites. First one I made was dedicated to Pink Floyd and published on geocities. As I always had an artsy side, web seemed like a brilliant platform. Perfect combination of tech, design and interactivity. Today, I'm still doing web apps, although I had no such plans at the time. University # UniversityFun fact, university's building is shaped as word NO which represents Tito's no to Stalin. In Serbian NO written in Cyrillic is НЕ. snuck onto me. Oh boy, I was looking forward to learning all the engineering stuff. But my university experience was quite underwhelming. Outdated curriculum, indifferent professors and students. (To be fair some professors were awesome and I learned a lot from them, Predrag Janičić and Milan Tuba to name my favorite ones.) I left studies with only few exams left, but I would never be at the place I'm today, if I hadn't gone to the university. Mostly because of the few professors who had given their best and couple of colleagues who became long life friends. One of them introduced me to Linux. Linux got me hooked, and I spend a lot of time exploring distributions, compiling drivers (fglrx anyone?)