It's hard to isolate precisely 20 years ago, but I'll give you an idea of when I started, which was earlier than that.
Imagine programming without any online resource, having to find a library or bookshop to get references. No package managers, no online tools, no real web. Information was scarce!
This forced an extreme "try stuff" approach, since you didn't really have any other choice. It was also difficult to foster any kind of good practices, or share knowledge, a lot of the early work I did was kind of in the dark. I shudder to think what type of code I produced 20 years ago.
There were likely less distractions though. No Twitter nor Facebook to waste time.
There were news groups and some limited chat. Around 20 years ago this stuff started being more common, as more people had permanent connections.
I started writing tools for the web when it first started. It was plain to see how much of an impact it'd make, not just to programming, but to society as a whole.
Though, I did, and still do, C++ programming. And the cycle of code, compile, get mad, hasn't changed. :)
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It's hard to isolate precisely 20 years ago, but I'll give you an idea of when I started, which was earlier than that.
Imagine programming without any online resource, having to find a library or bookshop to get references. No package managers, no online tools, no real web. Information was scarce!
This forced an extreme "try stuff" approach, since you didn't really have any other choice. It was also difficult to foster any kind of good practices, or share knowledge, a lot of the early work I did was kind of in the dark. I shudder to think what type of code I produced 20 years ago.
There were likely less distractions though. No Twitter nor Facebook to waste time.
There were news groups and some limited chat. Around 20 years ago this stuff started being more common, as more people had permanent connections.
I started writing tools for the web when it first started. It was plain to see how much of an impact it'd make, not just to programming, but to society as a whole.
Though, I did, and still do, C++ programming. And the cycle of code, compile, get mad, hasn't changed. :)