What was your first coding project (no-code counts)?

I built a developer productivity tool. It was a horrible mix of a Perl script glued onto a VB6 GUI. But it was fast, had few competitors and I sold over $100,000 of them. Lessons learnt: code quality makes very little difference as long as your product "does what it says on the tin". Also the best way to learn how to code is to find a project that achieves some objective that is important in your life. For example after being cruelly made redundant I vowed never to be 100% reliant on somebody else for my income.

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My coding project was a website in Flash😅

My first coding project was to build a theatre management system, I wrote the entire script in cpp and it was a fun sight to make my peers test it.

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So way back in the 80s, I made a character stat generator for AD&D in BASIC. It wasn't perfect, but I was young and quite proud of it.

My first coding project started two years ago. I love building out websites; I got curious and learned front-end development. It's a long and winding journey, but I can assure you that it is worth it. My advice is that do what you love; the sky is the limit.

Used to make minigames and mods for games. Best advice is just to go out there and start trying to build it. I think trying to get programming books and learn things "the right way" is walking into a dead end. I personally wouldn't have had the motivation to get through those. Just follow lots of broken tutorials, StackOverflows, guides, etc., to build the product you want (provided you're trying to do something 'reasonable' – can be hard to judge this without any programming experience already, but most things are reasonable). You'll learn stuff along the way. Some of it you'll just be pasting and have no clue what it does, but at some point down the road you'll figure that out too. You can do it the book way too. But even if you get through the boredom of learning the theory, I feel like acquiring knowledge can be a bit different to knowing how to apply it. I learned a lot of maths etc from textbooks, and even a lot of structural theory from books, but I feel like I'd have lost the joy of programming if I started out with books, rather than just doing.

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Thanks for the question! @gabe__perez So my first "product" I built was for the medical office of my parents. A simple phonebook application for DOS with fancy windows and tabs. It was my first serious program I wrote with lots of UI back at that time, and lot's of spaghetti code. But hey, it worked, and it was used for couple months until they bought something else from Microsoft. I was around 8 y.o. at that time. My first business was a brick-and-mortar retail shop, that failed hilariously, but tought me lots of invaluable lessons back when I was 15 y.o. Many tries and several years later my first profitable business was in Healthcare where we were doing warehouse automation for a few hospitals (this was a pre-HIPAA era). We were lucky enough to have more senior mentors coaching our team and myself in building business on top of the product after PMF phase. By the way, let me know your opinion on distribution vs PMF question here: https://twitter.com/eugenehp/sta... My advise for makers is to keep trying, build new things, **listen** to your target audience. Build a team, if you can, and have fun!