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?
It’s a silly reason for my case. When I was like 11, I watched so many hacker movies and was like “damn this is cool, I want to be like them” so I dug through the path of “how to become a hacker” and saw that I need to know the program before trying to hack it. Tried learning C but failed because my monkey brain can’t handle all that. So I ended up writing random bash and python scripts since that time.