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My friend got into programming by modding Warcraft 3 maps.

In the beginning he was just dragging and dropping random units to the map.

In the end he was quite proficcient in the embedded script editor.

This was true for me as well, before I even learned what programming was, I was already creating custom maps and making scripts through trial and error and lots of visits to google and the wc3 forums. It was nostalgic many years later learning "real" programming as an adult. I think it was a good learning experience and I sure had fun with it.

'triggers' were recently resurrected by the new Overwatch map editor basically just drop down boxes with 100's of conditions... I just don't have the patience when I know I could write this code myself If I actually knew the API

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