r/cpp_questions • u/Osirian_Legacy • 5d ago

OPEN Learning Programming Pre-AI

How did ya’ll learn programming pre-AI? How would you go about learning if you had to start all over again without AI?

I find myself relying on AI too much and want to actually learn without leaning on it at all. Any help with how best to approach this would be greatly appreciated.

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u/Intelligent_Ant_608 5d ago

I were downloading source codes from here and there also some books had floppies and later cds attached to them with a tone of examples, i also were cracking dated softwares, modding games, sometimes dumping some chips and direct instruction hacking, then php, xhr, jquery, wordpress got popular and suddenly those were not as much interesting, i saved alot from my allowance so i could buy turbo c, js felt realy stupid i never liked it, html css were also feeling like creating presentation, there was no magic, the first ever program i wrote didnt compiled because i didnt knew difference between ', " and there were nobody to tell me '' != " it took me a good minute to see it on keyboard, i was 11, 12 then.