Do you remember your very first real program? And in what language did you write it? 💻

Question

I am not talking about the very famous Hello World, your first project. What name did you give it and what was its use? ^_^

Answer 1

Back in the 90s I made a snake-like (or Tron-like) game in Borland Pascal. Eating candies not only made a snake longer but could have random effects, like timed exploding balls (either dirtball or clearing the space), on-demand laser (clearing a path from the snake's "mouth" up to the screen edge, random direction change and such.

It was multiplayer, too. I did not know p2p network handling too much, so a friend advised me to hardcode a function updating a remote file and reading from it, so that every player would have its own and the others' location updated.

Aaah, the good ol'times... 😌

Answer 2

My first program was a basic calculator written in C.
This was a year ago.

Answer 3

@Netkos that game still available?

Answer 4

I was taking a course in BASIC in 1977 and wrote a program that mimicked the logon screen on one of the classroom terminals but sent the user's password to the dot matrix printer (where I was sitting) as the diagonal of an otherwise random block of text. I was hoping to snag the instructor's password, but he found my code first and deleted it :(

Answer 5

Back in the 90s I learned C++ and C while helping develop an online text adventure game (was called MUDs back then). I branched off and created my own game after learning to program; it was some Dragonball Z MUD called Dragonball Epic. It only had about 50-100 players consistently, but it felt good. :D I was just a teen at the time.

Answer 6

Woow! @David Ashton; an 1977 hacker is here?!!!!!!!!! Lol

Answer 7

a basic calculator in C# 😆

Answer 8

@Jordan Chapman, wanna see it in your code playgroung

Answer 9

I made a little math helper c++ console application. basically a calculator except much slower to use.

Answer 10

Sorry, just seeing this again. lol The funny thing is... Yes, I still have the source code for the game, but I shut the servers down back when I was in high school then. (I was going through a lot of stuff at that time)

Unfortunately, the source code for the game is on a ZIP DISC, if you know what that is. Haha :D I haven't seen a zip drive since back then, and forgot they even existed until this convo.

Either way, at this point in my life, I could very easily recreate the game and make it 100% better than it was back then. However, these days I'm more focused in 2D/3D game development than dealing with text based stuff.

Answer 11

c++

Answer 12

salut , je suis Bosco et tres de te connaitre. je suis de la rdc

Answer 13

Hahaa..I never forgot the day..at second grade I started with HTML..My first web page but contains only <p> tag😂😂😂