I don't know if anybody else listens to Tegan and Sara but it's unrelated. They do have a song titled The First but that's not what this thread is about.

This thread is actually about the first program you've ever written. I of course am referring to something other than a "Hello World!" program; I'm thinking more along the lines of the first program you ever wrote for yourself based on what you'd learned to do. I've been programming actively for over 5 years now and I don't know that much about mainstream programming to be honest since the majority of my work is done with a game engine that has its own language. I do know some C++ and php. Enough to get me by anyway.

I was just thinking last night about the first program that I ever wrote. It was when I was in 9th grade and I wrote a program for my TI-83 graphing calculator. It was a pretty basic concept involving the slope-intercept mathematical formula which reads as:



Given this formula, taking the basic principles of algebra we can also solve these:



Given these four equations with any 3 known variables it would be a simple matter to solve for the fourth and final unknown.

One question that was posed to me by a teach later on that stumped me at the time but occurred to me as I was thinking back on it was, "How can you solve for the slope with only one point?"

Of course looking at the above formulas if X == 0 then there would be a divide by zero error so we can assume a point at (0, as well as at (X, Y) which gives the two points needed for the validity of the formula to solve for slope.

So anyway, I just rewrote the program since I no longer had it. Here's the full source:



Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to see what some of you wrote as your first useful program. I looked around and didn't see anything like this so sorry if I overlooked it.

This post has been edited by monkey_05_06: 18 May, 2009 - 11:11 AM

Lets keep programming topics out of the caffeine lounge please.

Why not place this in the tutorials?

My first program was a random number generator (aka, a Dice Roller)

And, it can be seen in all it's glory here.

This post has been edited by Bort: 18 May, 2009 - 07:51 AM

Sorry I didn't think it belonged in the programming help forum simply because I wasn't asking for programming help. I did read over the "NO PROGRAMMING QUESTIONS" but I still thought it was the best forum for the topic as it is a programming discussion not a technical question... My mistake.

This topic is in the right place I think.

My first actual useful program I built was a movie torrent searcher. I just typed in the movie name and the DVDRip torrent would download. Actually I just made it two weeks ago so it hasn't really been that long.