What was the first code you ever wrote?

I bet many of us have started with some silly codes, i just feel curious about other people's experience, so what was your first lines of code/script/application?

Comments

[Joe Beretta]

My one was on Turbo Pascal. It was at school. basic IO))) And of course after six years I forgot Pascal. But It was my first experience and it was cool :)

[Basti Ortiz]

Hehehe... I love this question. My first lines of code weren't even written by me; it was from a very clever guy from Stack Overflow who knew how to programatically play a <video> element. The code was something along the lines of:

var button = document.getElementById("playButton");
var video = document.getElementById("videoPlayer");

button.onclick = function() {
    video.play();
};

The way I used to code is a far cry from how I write code today. In the old days...

• I used var everywhere.
• I heavily polluted the global namespace.
• I gave an id to every single HTML element that I needed to programmatically access with JavaScript.
• I now prefer the addEventListener method over the "oneventname" properties to attach event listeners to DOM elements.
• I indent with two spaces nowadays. Before, I indented with tabs (which is kind of equivalent to four spaces).
• I prefer single-quoted strings now.

Wow, I have changed a lot since my early programming days (when I didn't even know about JS frameworks). Good times...

[Raed Yak]

Well, i think you are a true coder now haha
I believe that a developer that have never wrote something he knows nothing about, is not a real developer, because he haven't made a lot of research haha

[Basti Ortiz]

Copying and pasting from Stack Overflow: the Rites of Passage for every programmer.