What’s the story behind the first time you got paid to code something? 
The first time I made money from programming was in a summer job after sophomore year of college. It seemed amazing to get paid for programming.
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What kind of programming did you do?
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I was working for an AI group that had recently been set up by a big company, and they didn't really know what to do. (This was in 1984, and no one doing AI was doing anything that worked.) They had IBM PCs and I believe the only language we had was Basic.
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Same with me. I thought I was too late to start coding as a sophomore in college. Managed to get a software engineering internship after only one semester of computer science classes, thanks to
@ShriramKMurthi I was so happy. -
Nah, John, you got it thanks to yourself. Courses/profs/etc. are just vehicles. Great to run into you again.
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Indeed! Really amazing! More amazing if you love to code and get paid from it! 2 joyful moments
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Yes! I had such a struggle with getting paid to code because I was ashamed to ask for money. I always underpriced myself because it everything came so natural and simple
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