musings about how I learnt programming
learning html from a pretty old book from my local library was the first time I wrote something a computer could understand and it was pretty cool
I learnt Javascript a bit later but I didn't really care about learning the cool stuff (and the books only covered really simple stuff, naturally, they were old programming books for kids), so it took me quite a while to actually get into programming
(cont) musings about how I learnt programming
the first time I did something that wasn't for school was me sitting down and making a simple game in Delphi, with all the assets made in MS Paint (and everything done on my trusty Windows ME computer). I managed to figure out the Delphi 6 IDE quite well during that. I actually made a second game as well. The second one I tested without double buffering because it would make the game run horribly on my ancient computer, but "released" it with db
(cont) musings about how I learnt programming
by "released" I mean I put it on my website at the time, which was hosted on arcor's free hosting space. It sucked because it always inserted ads into the header. I had a few Javascript games, one of which was a hangman game I was pretty proud of, that broke because of that because I actually iterated over the images of the page in-order, so more images (= the ads) before them messed up my offset. I ended up measuring the offset on load.
(cont) musings about how I learnt programming
Sadly, that website is down by now, I probably have the files still. I should check them out sometimes, see if they still work on my new computer. Before Arcor I used freenet's free webhosting which was honestly a dream, since it had no ads and unlimited traffic. Those were the days. I hope my dad has backups of my extremely basic first website :D