alt Hacker NewsGame cheating and reverse engineering MMO backends taught me a lot: databases, networking, securing a backend (and frontend), limitations of simpler languages when comparing them to more native options for building backends.
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swingboy • yesterday at 11:56 AM
This was my introduction, too, but with Counter-Strike cheats.
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q8zd3 • yesterday at 1:38 PM
It was Quake World for me
Agreed, I was very late to the game and was forced to learn VBA for excel sheets and that is how I finally broke into programming.
When I was a pre-teen I stumbled upon CD-rom hacking guide to bypass disc requirements on games, I remember opening up the file and the screen being filled with HEX code. I was so overwhelmed I just closed it and never touched programming after that for 15 years. My life would have been totally different if I had embraced the unknown instead of retreating.