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First Programming Accomplishment

Started by programmermattc Aug 18, 2006 at 2:47 PM 16 replies 1.5k views

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Aug 18, 2006 at 2:47 PM

I was coding around yesterday and (bear with me I'm a n00b), got alpha blending on a texture to work so I filtered out the black background off my texture!!! YIPEE!!! What's everyone elses biggest accomplishments with programming? Mine was back in my senior year of high school. Programmed a full game with randomizing, character selection, and a 'go where you want to' feel all in VB6 during the first 4 mo. of my programming life hehe.

leiavoia

Aug 18, 2006 at 3:06 PM

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Original post by programmermattcWhat's everyone elses biggest accomplishments with programming?

It got me a job. I start Monday.

ApochPiQ

Aug 18, 2006 at 3:25 PM

My first really significant accomplishment was a 2D ASCII-art platformer, using color palette shifting for animation. It was a birthday/Christmas/whatever present for my dad, as I recall.

My biggest (thus far) was the Game of the Year edition of X3.

Nytegard

Aug 18, 2006 at 3:30 PM

Well, outside of work, probably writing my own debugger. It took forever, having not only having to learn the x86 assembly, as well as the actual op codes, but also learned about how executables work, etc.

Very informative, and helped me learn a lot more than any of the classes I took in college.

MrEvil

Aug 18, 2006 at 4:02 PM

I wrote a fairly simple raytracer a few years ago. It was quite fun.

eedok

Aug 18, 2006 at 5:14 PM

my very first win32 application made it as a prank on robrob8.com, I got my first nonclone game hosted on bonus.com. My greatest accomplishment I think so far is my work automator that I made to go through these spreadsheets I have to at work allowing me to have the productivity of at least 12 people while surfing gamedev.net, I'm so hard at work right now :P

Maega

Aug 18, 2006 at 5:27 PM

My predecessor (who now works for the Department of Homeland Security) asks me for programming help for his job.

So in a way, I work for the government also :P

Programmer One

Aug 18, 2006 at 6:22 PM

I'm the CIO and lead developer for a healthcare software development company.

Sander

Aug 18, 2006 at 7:13 PM

I don't know what to call my biggest accomplishment, so I'll stick to the topic title and name my first: programming a 2D space shooter in Q-BASIC called "Space Zone".

ArchWizard

Aug 18, 2006 at 7:15 PM

My first programming accomplishment was a text adventure in BASIC. My greatest programming accomplishment was a breakout clone written in C++ with DirectX.

idloco

Aug 18, 2006 at 8:14 PM

my first programming acoomplishment was programing a Calculator using Visual Basic 6, but the one y feel more proud of is, making a tetris clone using c++ and directx, i spend 1 month only braggin about it with my friends..

Mushu

Aug 18, 2006 at 8:43 PM

My wife :3

ArchWizard

Aug 18, 2006 at 9:12 PM

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My wife :3

So are you Gary or Wyatt?

googlyeyes

Aug 18, 2006 at 9:16 PM

Tetris was my first programming accomplishment:
I was really excited to get block rotation and row removal working.
I still have the binary on my harddrive.

eleusive

Aug 18, 2006 at 10:51 PM

The project I just finished at Google...I can't elaborate much more though [grin]

lethalhamster

Aug 18, 2006 at 10:57 PM

This was my first (and only) programming accompishment. I haven't really coded anything since then. I'm proud of it.

Mr_Fhqwhgads

Aug 19, 2006 at 12:14 AM

My first programming accomplishment was programming a UI in liberty basic. :)

DaWanderer

Aug 19, 2006 at 12:41 AM

My first major achievement was creating a VB mockup of the Windows 95 dial-up networking dialog box. My friend's dad wouldn't tell him the password, so I created the mockup to simply save the password to a secret text file and put up a fake "Busy signal...please try again later" dialog. The plan went of without a hitch and we enjoyed many an hour of web enjoyment.

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