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?
When I was young I always thought programming was mind-bogglingly complex, that I’d never be able to do it, I wrote it off. In school I took IT classes because I was good with computers but they never had any programming so I wasn’t exposed to that until I started a computer science degree. There I did my first programming course where I was gently introduced using Windows Forms and C# and was immediately hooked, right after class I went home and started making my own silly Windows Forms apps