Ask HN: What was the single best turning point in your life as a programmer?

2 points by ggr2342 2 years ago | 3 comments

Everyone has some pivotal moment in their career that propels their career in a positive direction. If you are a programmer or software engineer, what was that pivotal moment that made your skills increase in folds?

beardyw 2 years ago |

The web. In the 90s I made myself 'the web guy' in the software company I worked for just by getting on it at home and playing with what tools there were.

radonek 2 years ago |

Learning C. Never written any serious code in it, but still among most usefull skills to have.

ggr2342 2 years ago | |

Why C? What was so special about learning it? You got to fiddle with the computer's memory structure and pointers?