Jabo

You cut your teeth on Hello World. What did you do after you learned/graduated? I have a theory but I want to see what your first program was after you learned the basics.

Sane

Graduated? As in graduated from Hello World? I can distinctly remember my first program afterwards being a translater for numbers in Mayan to Modern Day numbers.

Jessehk

The first/only program I've ever written over about 1000 lines is my oft mentioned C++ Minimax tic-tac-toe game with Qt (it is about 1600 LOC).

I've written hundreds of smaller programs since and before then.

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mrynit

block dude in QBASIC 4.5

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dr.p

AOL progs

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Jabo

As in got your degree. Some people didn't graduate, that's why I included learned.

I've made some small programs for work, but my first big project is going to be
a budgeting program for personal use. That is, if I can ever get started on it.

starbeam

I working on a program for a company. Well it was really there website and making sure that people could by there stuff from there site and all.

Arla

Not sure I ever did a Hello World program... they didn't really exist on the ZX Spectrum.

Mostly some games programming, although quite honestly most of those were the equivalent of copy/paste programs, very little "real" programming.

Nowadays, whatever I decide that I need a program to do because I'm too bone-idle to do it by hand (mostly work rinse/repeat tasks that I'd rather have a program do for me).

Canis Major

I haven't graduated yet, but the program that I've made that was of much use was somewhat like a database (I haven't taken up databases at that time) to keep track of all the song information in my band. I was hoping to adapt it into keeping track of books (because of our big family library, actually taking up much of our home) but I never got to doing it.

Yeah, people can say there's MS Access and MySQL whatever, but didn't know much of those at the time, so most of the commands and the searching and stuff that I was doing were mainly hard coded, searching through a text file which can be parsed.

But these days, I'm actually part of a two-man team programming the database of a department in one of the biggest television networks in Manila. Quite excited to get it finished today, because we'll be integrating stuff tomorrow.

Infinite Recursion

After my first "Hello world" program, I probably quickly did the next exercise in whatever book/tutorial I was reading.

After graduating college, I got hired by a DoD contractor to write cryptography software. Now my primary function is to integrate existing software architecture into a home grown mutli-platform software system that handles userid/password management for supported solaris,linux,windows servers and Oracle, Access, and MySql databases as well as Active Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, etc.

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