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A quiz game in BASIC, something like this: 10 PRINT "What is the capital of France?" 20 PRINT "1. Berlin" 30 PRINT "2. Madrid" 40 PRINT "3. Paris" 50 INPUT "Enter the number of your choice: ", A 60 IF A = 3 THEN PRINT "Correct!" : GOTO 100 70 PRINT "Incorrect, try again." 80 GOTO 10 100 END

probably "Hello world!" in many languages ... they just make you do it you litterally have no control 😁

Assembly for hand build circuit board for vending machine 🤔

Feb'1984 - 10y old ill at home in our living room with our brand new Sony Hit Bit MSX connected to our Family TV going through the best programming book I ever read. https://archive.org/details/sony-einfuhrung-in-msx-basic-ocr

2005 First academic project in C/C++, made be realise many things between theory and practical. I still remember spending lot of time in lab, asking many many questions. After finishing the project I felt like I am on top of the world. Next my steps went into Java which brought lots of interest in coding.

Writing a game in BASIC for the old Amstrad CPC664. Graphics adventure maybe? Ah ASCII art, just saw below and remembered the term. It had a stickman who walked across the screen, greeted you, and had some options to give him a big glass of water, which he drank using a ladder and a long straw. I was quite proud of it, considering I was under 12 at the time. Also did a lot of mandala drawing using turtle graphics programs.

Quadratic equation solver in TI-BASIC on a TI-83 Plus. It could tell you intercepts in decimal approximation or exact form, including imaginary ones, and factor if possible, and show you a graph of it. I remember writing out what I would store in every single variable A-Z (which eventually overflowed into specific positions in one of the lists) so I wouldn't overwrite a value I needed later, and also my list of all the Lbl's for Goto/Menu. When I got to my first language that let you give variables arbitrary names and write functions, I was so excited!

Commodore64 computer came with a Users Guide; back then a Users Guide would teach you how to code :) Anyway, first thing I remember as a kid is copying sample code in, modifying them and running them to see what happens. https://www.commodore.ca/manuals/c64_users_guide/c64-users_guide-06-sprite_graphics.pdf

I remember coding a simple "Hello, World!" program. It was a small step, but it sparked my love for programming!

"My first coding project was a 'Hello, World!' program in html. It was a simple start, but it sparked my interest in programming."