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Discussion on: What was your first project as a professional developer?

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Nathan Englert

For me, my first job as a professional was an internship at a records management consulting company (very exciting stuff). My first project was automating PowerPoint reports for the operations staff. While auditing one of their clients, they would enter a bunch of data into a SQL database for reporting. Then, they would create these presentations in PowerPoint by hand to show off their insights. I used VBA to run some queries against that SQL database and merge it into a PowerPoint template that I set up. It blew minds.