My first year of programming

Terrence Dorsey

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Yesterday was a very special day for. Exactly one year had passed since I wrote my very first line of code, one year since I saw code for the first time in my life, one year since I completely and utterly fell in love with programming. It was love at first compile. I just knew me and this was meant to be!- And I have never looked back since.

If you love something, deploy it. If it runs for you, it was truly meant to be.

Paul Conrad

I remember the first lines of code I wrote was in the early 1980's on a Commodore 64 computer.

"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus

sutapa das

My first year of programming is so horried for me. In those days my facautly scold me too much but they scold me for my goodness but when i understand better when my teacher samit sir teach me i am very very thankfull to him.

icemanind

My first line of code was on a TRS-80 Color Computer around 1982. Omg I loved it and I've went from Basic to Assembly Language to C, C++ and C#. The Color Computer started it for me all though and I will forever love that computer because of it

pasztorpisti

LOL! "Love at first compile..." :-) Unfortunately first I didn't know that such thing that compiler exists, it could have speed up the development of my programming skills earlier. I had only a hiew.exe that could decompile binaries and hexedit them on a 80286, plus some small example .com files like ncexit.com to analyze. Still it was fun after getting bored of amoeba and and the other stupid pc games for hercules monitors! :-)

_beauw_

I had a CoCo 2 and I still developed for it up until about 3-4 years ago. I've thought about posting some of my work here. You may remember that the CoCo had a graphics mode based on 16 four-pixel graphical characters, one for each possible foreground/background color combination. At one point, I came up with optimal line-drawing routines based on this graphics mode. The 6809 can move two characters to the display buffer in one instruction, and for more horizontal lines this represents 4 pixels that can be drawn at once. My finished product was a BASIC program with a long DATA statement containing my machine language line-drawing routine. I never did this stuff as a kid. After college, though, it was amazing how all those CoCo reference books suddenly made sense to me. Incidentally, I ditched my CoCos (I also had a CoCo 3) shortly after I got something PC compatible. In retrospect, the CoCos were much better. They were cheaper, had better graphics, and used a CPU actually designed for use by semi-normal humans. (One really has to specialize in Intel assembly language to do it right.)