First application you were proud of
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First application you were proud of
I was looking at old code from when I started programming and it was really cool to do. I did less than a month of C++ before switching to Python, but within 16 days of starting and writing my first hello world app I wrote a simple dos prompt calculator. It only does the four basic operations, but it was one of the first applications that I remember feeling really proud to have written. It goes like this:
"Enter two numbers followed by the operation you wish to perform on them:
1 for addition
2 for subtraction
3 for multiplication
4 for division"
I was just curious what other people remember as being their first application or bit of code that they felt really proud of - no matter how simple. Mine was just a single file with 57 lines including whitespace, 5 functions, and I used if statements where I probably should have used a switch...case. The most important thing to me was that it was something I wrote myself as opposed to being something from a tutorial.
"Enter two numbers followed by the operation you wish to perform on them:
1 for addition
2 for subtraction
3 for multiplication
4 for division"
I was just curious what other people remember as being their first application or bit of code that they felt really proud of - no matter how simple. Mine was just a single file with 57 lines including whitespace, 5 functions, and I used if statements where I probably should have used a switch...case. The most important thing to me was that it was something I wrote myself as opposed to being something from a tutorial.
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Re: First application you were proud of
The first one was when I got some C++ code to compile. Second was getting shit to move about on the screen. And also the moment I got shit to move on my NDS with user input.
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Re: First application you were proud of
My first C++ application that I was proud of was the Command Line calculator. I was soooooo proud of myself :D.
A close second would have to be the recursive Fibonacci function that never ended
A close second would have to be the recursive Fibonacci function that never ended
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Re: First application you were proud of
Although I did quite a bit of programming before this, making my first Pong program in DarkBASIC I had a lot of pride in... why? It was my FIRST video game program from start to finish. I was even more proud when I ported it to the GBA using C/ASM. It was a great sign of progress and made me feel like I had taken the first steps toward becoming a game developer of sorts.
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Re: First application you were proud of
My first program I was proud of was a simple IRC bot written in C.
It could connect, recieve messages and even sent messages :D
But the code is horrible though.
It could connect, recieve messages and even sent messages :D
But the code is horrible though.
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Re: First application you were proud of
PONG Clone, a clone of PONG I made. It was the first complete game I made that wasn't from some tutorial.
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Re: First application you were proud of
Battleships-type game in the console, I coloured the characters and everything, you had to search for the 'gold' on a grid, and you had to avoid the 'mines', it also beeped, which was enough to amuse me when I started programming all those years ago
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Re: First application you were proud of
Simple C++ calculator just (+ - / *) functions, was very happy!
Re: First application you were proud of
Still haven't made one
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Re: First application you were proud of
The first proper app that I was proud off was an accessory on the Atari ST, it would turn the mouse pointer into the hand icon and let the user scratch at their screen, leaving bloody trails. Except if you include the app I made that inverted the mouse, so when you move up, the pointer goes down, that was usually just stuck on friends ST's to annoy them though.
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Re: First application you were proud of
I just re-read the topic title and I'd have to correct myself. The first application I was/am proud of is a program that handles student grades and prints them out into a legit grade document for highschool, the kind you get when you graduate. It may be something else, I can't recall at the moment.
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Re: First application you were proud of
Id have to sat that the first app I was actually proud of was my first map editor. I was so pleased with myself for getting it to work Happy memories...
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Re: First application you were proud of
A Frogger clone, written in Pascal. This was the first time I had taken my learnings in high school CS class and actually applied them to my own project.
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"T3h Egg Hownet" -- A malicious Perl script that I made to fuck with Marcel every time he pissed me off by accessing his desktop and files over the network. (Never share your C drive on Windows).
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Re: First application you were proud of
P33r, with great P33R! P33r t3h 3gg h0wn3t!