Gabe Perez

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

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What was your first project and how did you get started? Curious how makers get started in their journey and learn the skills they need to create something. Any advice for makers who have an idea but don't know where to start in the building journey?
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Eivind Håverstad
My coding project was a website in Flash😅
Farha Kareem
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.
May Har
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Daniel Tuttle
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.
Shharrnam Chhatpar
My first coding project was code to decrypt text and figure out the cipher key used to encrypt the text. For example, H BC B RDZ decrypts to I AM A BOY Was a C++ project making use of Reading dictionary(to figure out words) and used binary search to search if a word was a valid word in dictionary. This was back when i had no knowledge about Data Structures. Later figured out dictionary search could have been implemented using Trie's or could have made use of a HashMap as well haha.
Helen Thomas
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.
Mandeep
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.
Ian
My first project is the AI-powered copywriting tool - https://ExtySolutions.com It is made for all the entrepreneurs, marketers and copywriters out there to help write business and marketing copy, brainstorm ideas, and more. Give it a shot!
Eugene Hauptmann
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!