Memories about your first times coding

[dleanjeanz]

Hi everyone, I'm DJ and I just wanna tell you this.
My very first trick was like this in C++.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int main() {
	std::cout << "What's your name? ";
	std::string s;
	std::cin >> s;
	std::cout << s << " is stupid!" << std::endl;
	std::cin.get();
	return 0;
}

I coded it when I was a kid.
And after that, I tested it with my name.
And I think the output was magical.
I was like: "Make the computer do whatever I want. No way."
What about you?

[Peter87]

My first experience with programming was when I tried to make levels for a game called Dungeon Keeper many years ago. It had a simple scripting language that you was supposed to use to trigger different actions. I didn't understand much and mostly copied from existing levels and tried to make changes to it. I remember I once managed to trigger some bug that made infinite number of enemies enter at a much higher pace than was normally possible.

[BHX]

My first experience with programming was BASIC on my school's computer in 7th grade. I was more fascinated with it once we got to the point of drawing things like a rocket or telephone to the screen.

[dleanjeanz]

@Peter87
So have you ever finished that game? I have never finished any project of mine.

[supersammy7000]

I was coding at a table in my dinning room on a laptop lol. i was starting to use a if statement(in batch the window bash) with user input and i just thought that was the coolest thing ever. i was only like 9 though. and from there on i was just so into coding making a super speed magic box do whatever i wanted not talking back nothing. just doing what i told it.

Now that is what started a life long obsession with computers. I went from Batch to Java to PHP to C++ where i am now and i've had so much fun doing this and i will have so much more fun in the future. coding while riding a jetpack that will be fun dont you think.

So that is my first memory of coding i geuss and a little of what happened after.

[Peter87]

dleanjeanz wrote:

So have you ever finished that game? I have never finished any project of mine.

I have played through the single player mode. Note that I didn't make that game. I just did some levels that me and my friends played.

[LB]

I remember being thoroughly confused about resizing arrays and 2D vectors.

[abhishekm71]

I was introduced to programming in school through the programming language LOGO. I remember wondering why the 'turtle' was called so.

[Stewbond]

My first program was on a TI-83 while I was bored at school.

I made a text-RPG which had a bunch of if-else statements (no loops):

"You walk down a hall. 1=Turn left, 2=Turn right"
"You turned left and got eaten by a monster, Game over"

... Wait, the turtle! I forgot all about that! We had a computer class in grade 4 20 years ago. We got some instructions to enter into the calico and I remember a classmate crying when his didn't work. Turns out he entered a O instead of 0.

[dleanjeanz]

Stewbond wrote:

"You turned left and got eaten by a monster, Game over"

LOL
What about turning right?

[Lowest0ne]

My first programing was with, I believe, the turtle game that Stewbond played. It was basically a triangle on a screen and one would write something like: "REPEAT 360 FORWARD 1 RIGHT 1". That would draw a circle ( took a minute or two or three ). I remember I didn't know how to spell "repeat".

The Science Museum had the same program, but they had made a physical track to move a turtle through. It was this weird thing no one knew how to use in the midst of a bunch of computers running Oregon Trail and Battle Chess. I remember the day I walked into the lab and realized I knew how to move the turtle around, it was awesome.

Interesting enough, my next programming would also be in the form of TI-83. I would write programs that would do our homework and sell them to classmates. My crowning achievement with the TI-83 was making Mastermind.

[AkramIzzeldin]

my very first small but amazing (at that time) project I made was a calculator at the beginning I was so confused how I will make the algorithm for processing the input I guess it took me a day or two to figure out and I was so excited when I finally get it. Although nowadays, I just wander why it took me time to get it while its relatively simple.

That rush of adrenaline when solving programming problems and the challenge is what I love in programming (AI) and the ability to simulate real things in virtual worlds giving you the feel of controlling the world and making your roles.