What was your first program, What language was it in & what did it do?

An extremely basic Fahrenheit to Celsius converter with absolutely no UI and it was in C++.

Around the same time, I made a simple website that had a bullshit home screen, and used a bit of JavaScript to force close your browser of you clicked the wrong link (aka everything on the page).

I can't remember which one I did first, but pretty sure it was the C++ converter.

@jhh2450 Yeah, I guess I should change my post to most notable coding creation, or else everyone will be responding with the typical "Hello World!" default xD

@Creedo Well I used my common sense to realize you didn't mean hello world lol

@jhh2450 Thank god xD

I jumped in the deep end with a forum tutorial for PHP4 and MySQL.

Who needs hello worlds 🤔

@C0D4 Sound awesome,

I made a website recently that invoked the powers of SQL & PHP.

It was a search field but as you typed letters, suggestions would pop up beneath :)

Well, if I remember correctly, my first program was made with Pascal (using Turbo Pascal) when I was in highschool.

What that program do (or done) I can't remember as that was 17 years ago, and it was part of the exercises that our professor gave to us... So, I'll say that it was probably a calculator (I'm omitting the classic "hello world").

@Lahsen2016 Sounds sweet, & thank you, pleasure to be here.

@araxhiel

And thus began your rise as an engineer :)

Thanks for the response

an extremely basic calculator in c++ :) those where the days... the problems were easy and the solutions around every corner.. still had more bugs. 😂

The first time ever I touched some type of "programming language" ? Does ActionScript counts? If not well me trying to mess around with php and (spoiler)Wordpress 2.x something(/spoiler) ... later on when I started formerly learning it some language would have been Java, a calculator with also an option to find if a number was a pair and or a prime number

@legionfrontier That's awesome; what age were you starting off?

Part of our uni java course was to built our own simplistic VM. Boy at that time it was hard and most of the time I was just trying to follow the course content

Windows Batch, and it was a number guessing game

Something in vic basic from the manual of the commodore Vic 20. Probably hello world, then some sums, then later bouncing ball. How about you?

@spacem My first notable program drew 2 squares to the screen. One which you controlled with WSAD keys; the other square would move to a random location every 5 seconds.

Your goal was to move your square into the other square before it moved. That would give you a point.

Pretty simple, but pretty much the first thing I was proud off =)

Hello World in Java

@Mizz141 lol

@K4R70FF3L Happens to all of us :P

A website with rotating batteries which changed colours.

@C0D4 baby robots?

Oh my... :D
That was a program I wrote on my trusty old TI84+ in school in TI-Basic.
I don't remember exactly what the first program was, but i mostly wrote games, for example mine sweeper and Sudoku.

I think that was the steepest learning curve I ever had - due to the restrictions of the calculator and the language (no functions or the like, no comments, the only variable types being floats, strings and lists of floats, only seeing 7 lines at once,...).

A ceaser cypher tool in python, in geany on puppy linux, I think it was ?... Oh to be young and bored, was probably the most fun I had learning a programming language

The most insecure login system ever, written in C, which stored the "password" in plain text right next to the executable

@NoMad @JFK422 quirky but I like it

Functionally at-least, a Twitter post searcher in Python...

In Visual Basic (unfortunately).
It was effectively a terminal-based key-value store. It had read, write and delete commands and stored data in a text file.
I later added a simple ceasar cipher to "secure" it.
Most importantly, it had red-on-black text!

When i was 10-11 i made small basic program which converted short names of stellar constellations into full name

other than a hello world, I had made a batch file that spams winver.exe

brace yourselves, winver is coming

C# Basic Calc

@franga2000 Hmm, what about red text on a green background?😆😂

@netroxen Prettty sweet

I'd like to make use of twitters API someday

First program was a wacky-mad-lib-type thing written in QBasic.

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Hehehe.. now for real.. first language was Pascal.. some school project.

@Creedo damn! Your comment about the two squares bring some memories back from when I was on middle School and we were learning the (very, very) basics of programming using "Logo"...

It was fun to draw stuff with that turtle haha

Java hello world :/

@Creedo now that's just evil! I'm so putting it in my friend's .bashrc 😁

Pascal, km to miles converter!

@sysadmin4life seems to be a common one

Mine was also a simple calculator in Java when I learned about the Scanner class. I wrote it in BlueJ. 😂 Then eventually moved to eclipse.

Disclaimer, was one of the first... At least the most memorable. Made an image cropping program, basic, but actually pretty cool. Did automatic crops to fit to selected ratios and layouts with the selected focal point in prime position.

I'd made a simple program to calculate the length of a line at a given scale in Visual Basic, but my true first big one was (is) a Python/Django based POS system that is currently still going strong and used in a few food trucks around the world!

C basic dumbass calculator

An Arduino with an RFID reader and a servo to unlock my door.

First thing I programmed that didn't run on an Arduino was a Java number guessing game.

MD5 checksum tool written in Python, takes in the path of a file as an argument when run, (or asks you to give one if you didn't) and returns a MD5 checksum for it. File size independent, however it wasn't super fast

@epse That is awesome!

Basic

It calculated your age and welcomed you.

Then I created VB scripts to open your CDROM

@Creedo github.com/Epse/EpPos launching a SAAS soon