Are any of you guys sentimental about your early programming efforts? I still have my first few simple Python programs on my computer, from years ago!

print("hello world")

Not really. I have always been frustrated about them being crap :) But nowadays stuff is powerful enough to do interesting stuff as a single dev. So it might change :)

^ this!

when i was 12 my father a programmer forced me to learn java for kids. I hated it because you've had to type so much for so little output and i didnt see any use of it.

Today you have the internet and you can do amazing things just with javascript.

@heyheni Yes damn it's happened stuff. I did some Basic on C64, saw Assembler and "Nope!". Then a bit of Amos on the Amiga, C++ opening ports in university and "Nope!". Then I just did some web stuff until I found Python. And now with HTML5 and Javascript it's fun again.

yes, my early efforts, a c# program for solving the simplex technique. it was so badly coded I was pulling rows out of a 2d array, writing to a 1d manipulating and writing back. I could have just done everything in the 2d one. I still have it tho, felt good implementing then

it's the social component that makes a skill worthwhile.
the idea that you make something valuable that others will use keeps me motivated. And for software thats very hard to achieve if there wasn't a way to share it like the internet.

I cringe when I look at my old code :/

10 for i = 1 to 100
20 print "hallo"
30 next i

This was my first program ever. My father wrote it down on a newspaper and we had this IBM AT with BASICA on it. So he showed me how this works and what happened if you changed the string after the print or the loop counter :) I was 7 years old back then and i was amazed :)

The rest is history 😀

I have most of my uni work because I backed everything up using gdrive.

Some horrible and incomprehensible stuff there.

Also I have a bunch of old
websites I made to learn web dev when I was 14. Most of which are unfinished..

Oh, how nothing has changed :)