I recently remembered the first web app that I built. It was part of my senior thesis in college -- I thought that adding a way to visualize the data I was working with would make the project more interactive and it would be able to reach more people.
It's far from perfect, and the version online is the second design and I also went through a big code refactor at some point.
I had also been writing code professionally as a software engineer for around a year when I wrote this (and was a computer science teaching assistant for a year before that), but it was just data science/analysis code instead of code for the web.
I learned a lot with the project, and a lot of that knowledge has carried over to work even recently!
The app is here: http://politicaldiscussion.herokuapp.com/! You can see the about page for more about it, and the source code is also linked in the footer!
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My first was for my dissertation for my first degree. I built a human rights NGO website with just a little knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS. My only regret is I wasn't aware of Git and Github so I've lost the files. 😢
My first real app was a tournament and game schedule administration for sport events of my local sports club. It was done with the MEAN stack and especially the backend contains a lot of spaghetti code and is the pure callback hell 😣 However I'm still proud of it ☺️ Check it out below
Spielplan Beachturniere Ismaning
spielplanismaning
Spielplan - System für die Beachturniere in Ismaning
Dokumentation
Hier findest du die Dokumentation
Build Status
CI-Tool
Travis
Installation
Tests
Server Start
Build
Lokal über gulp
oder für Serve aus dem dist
Alternativ
Workflow
Callback hell 😈 I know that feel :(
Behold! The first website I built was when I was 12ish and managed a Age of Empires/Kings clan. I can't believe it is still there after 20+ years:
(Brace yourselves)
(No. Really. Brace yourself)
tnt-lord.tripod.com/mainpage1.htm
Curiously, the next time I did any web development was 15 years later xD
This is the beauty of the Web that I came here to see.
This makes me feel so many nostalgic emotions. Boss.
I miss frames
Tripods are still online?!?!? Now I wonder if mine are still there :)
It's so vintage!
I love minimal design :D
hahaha YES! If you were to describe this design with just one word it would definitely be minimalistic :D
A true hipster, ahead of the curve in the minimalism movement! He Marie Kondo-ed (or Kondomari) his whole website and disposed of anything that didn't spark joy ✨🙌
🤣
I remember using yahoo geo cities to build a site many years ago. I would have been very happy at the time if it looked that good as that.
I accidentally hit wappalyser chrome extension button, it literally said "No technologies detected." xD
No technologies were used in the making of this website XDDD
Wish I could but yahoo pages are long gone.
In a nutshell it was a web app for AIM/AOL "hackers" - build a small app that would change colors on AOL Chat. Shared vast html pages as "blog posts" on how to do stuff.
Yup I feel "old" now, just writing this ^ .
Mine was a PWA. I had learnt a couple of things in HTML, CSS and JS so I built a news client app. Link is here unboxnewslite.firebaseapp.com
puritanic.github.io/Tribute-page/
I've left this as a reminder how far have I come on my journey :) Not my first first project, as I wrote a bunch of Greasemonkey scripts for online browser games, but the first project after I've decided that I want to work as a developer for real :)
Was this for the freecodecamp.org curriculum?
Yep :)
I went through a lot of their course in my early days! It was such a good experience, and so empowering! It felt really nostalgic to see the tribute page again!
I've kept mine for posterity too! slothcrew.com/tribute/index.html
I recently built my first mobile app. I decided to learn react native by building a simple chess clock (for android). If you have an android phone, you can download the apk and check out the repo
I've been getting into React-Native recently myself. What was your biggest road-block to getting started?
My biggest road block was probably wasting time with video tutorials. I knew what I wanted to build before I started react native. The tutorials weren't helpful so as soon as I decided to just learn as I was building it, things went smoothly.
That's funny, because I struggle with a lot of that too. Often I'll watch video tutorials thinking they will help me as long as I follow along, but what I've been quickly realizing is that: 1. They often give me a false sense of security in thinking that I know more than I do since I'm familiar with how code should look like, and 2. that I enjoy watching those more as entertainment than as a learning tool.
I do find a lot of value in written material though.
I don't remember my first app but I do remember the first thing I coded. It was a Mario vs Luigi game in Scratch when I was 9 I think, 11 years ago :P
The first actual web app I built solo was also my first solo professional web app. It was called Pagepooch and it was a price and page tracker - you'd submit a web page using a bookmarklet and it would either track the price of a product as it changed, or track changes to the page content. It was built with CodeIgniter 2 and had a companion Phonegap app.
It's no longer active but you can see it at web.archive.org/web/20130517174018...
Starcraft 'clan' site using the game elements for the UI.
3 panel iframe (no borders! \o/) from HTML 3 I think it was. JS image mouse-over effect applied to the menu items.
Died sometime in 1997 / 1998.
My first web app would have been a university assignment from a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. As for my first Android app: Apocalypse Cow. Made primarily to learn some Java and OO programming, and to have a go at making a game.
I developed a Stopwatch for Sony Small Apps API for Android in 2013. It is still live on Google Play with over 85K downloads.
Later, I made most of the code open source in the form of a library which is available on GitHub.
My first and only mobile app (which was based on an idea I had in school and then implemented a basic version in hardware with my friends in college) was Square Tic Tac Toe - not sure if it works fine on newer versions of Android
The idea when it started was simple - instead of same old making a line for Tic Tac Toe, make a square on 4x4 board. Am from ECE background, knew only programming basics and had Java as a subject in school days. Still, I had quit my job and had plenty of time on hand. The result was multiple 1000+ lines of spaghetti monster created over a year of coding, static and global variables all over the place, cannot create two objects of a class without crashing, etc. The game suffered from poor UI/UX and feature creep. Yet, I am proud that I was able to release a working game.
To spice up Tic Tac Toe for higher board size, I introduced varying line sizes and blocking moves:
I tried to rewrite for public release, but lost interest. Only a small part of it is now present on Github - it has computer playing logic for generic NxN Tic Tac Toe board (with line size fixed at N)
For years, I've been wanting to take a shot at it again using Python (as a reason to learn Python GUI modules), who knows I might even take the first step this year.
I guess my first 'app' would be my Gulp workflow. I don't really feel like that's an app, it was more the outline of making a future app. You'd have to fork it and run it. You can't get to it from a page.
My first app, I feel is, React HIIT Timer. That one is more accessible to people and I feel encompasses the beginning of an actual app.
Last year I started a coding bootcamp, sadly I couldn't finish it due to health issues, but I went back last November and this is the first web I made the second time I was there:
karmacode00.github.io/scl-2018-11-...