I'd choose Windows Millennium Edition over you

Seventeen. I worked for 17 hours to pull off a POC of a feature no one thought was possible (at that time). It wasn't clean beautiful code, but hey, it worked! It's live now and I still smile when the feature is used.

While I recover from a foot surgery, I got a sliver of joy. Landed my first full time dev job :)

Most Devs I've met have been rational, so I'm fortunate enough to not have had a fight with a dev.

There was, however, one guy. Had to collaborate with him on a web app. I would fight with him almost everyday to not use deprecated tags, use proper CSS, not hack something together because it just works and the list goes on too long.

But I never succeeded in convincing him. Learnt that no matter how much you try, you cannot convince someone stupid

I get lazy when I've to write documentation

While Google is developing breakthrough AI systems that might quite possibly pass the Turing tests in the near future, my university suggests I learn JQUERY and calls the course Advanced Web Programming

Not particularly advice, but taught me Git, React, Node and bought me pizza whenever I succeeded in a task

Whenever there's an annoying bug that refuses to go no matter what I do, I just go to sleep. Sleep is the best debugger.

I don't think I've been more excited about anything than my very first application.

This was when I was just starting out with programming. I had chosen C++ as my first programming language.

A friend and I'd written a simple application to fetch XML data from a sports data server, parse it and display our favourite football (soccer, for Americans) team's fixtures and results on a GUI.
We called it Sportify.

God bless those developers who give you a dark theme for their apps

Be current.
Don't teach just languages, teach how to think programmatically
Make laptops more essential than notebooks when you're teaching
Spend more time on trying to solve problems rather than giving the textbook solution

My first interview.

Interviewer looks at my resume, asks me questions about the projects that I had done at that time.

Tells me he hadn't done this much when he was of my age.

Rejected.

So this happened today

Dad's office when I was 7 years old. Saw his employees use MS Office. Saw an unused computer.

Monkey see, monkey do.

When I started out with JavaScript without understanding its asynchronousity.

Incompetent doesn't even start to describe this one:

1. Uses Google drive instead of an online repository for code sharing
2. Uses multiple files instead of version control
3. Preferred variable names like a, a1, b, temp
4. Didn't like "wasting" space. The result was unreadable unindented code
5. Would rather use deprecated HTML tags rather than proper CSS styling

He was more like the personification of bad coding practices

!rant

So there was a tech summit and the startup I work for had a stall there.

People waited patiently to try our product and told me that our work was very cool.

I've never been happier!

PS: For those of you who are curious, check out scapic.com

Finally launched the product I was working on :D

Go home elementary, you're drunk

"Can you make the UI look uglier and more ... Traditional?"

Removed CSS completely and gave them an HTML only page. They loved it.

Clients wanted a simple backend to be deployed specifically on Apache. Used PHP. Spoke to them and they were fine with PHP .... Until I delivered the application. Told me how bad a developer I am to not use the MEAN stack. Didn't even pay.

So I have to endure Java Programming lab once a week.
The computers in the lab have Windows XP.
You're not allowed to install additional software.
There's eclipse installed.
But no. You cannot use eclipse. You are FORCED to use J FUCKING GRASP.

WHAT SORT OF DERANGED TEACHER WOULD USE SUCH A DISGRACE OF AN IDE?????

1. Get excited by what it'll be able to do
2. Think about the tech stack
3. Lay out its features
4. Procrastinate

WHY U DO DIS JAVASCRIPT

Getting paid for my work.

Just because I'm a student, people assume I'll do everything for free and "exposure", while they make money off of my code

"HTML is a language that needs to be compiled"
- Web dev "teacher"

"We shouldn't use a version control system for such a small project. Let's just use Google Drive"

Wrote a library that helped the start up I was working for solve a major issue and get funded

Didn't know how to do backend development. The organisation I was working for then needed a simple backend. Learnt some PHP and developed the entire backend in less than 8 hours

PS In hindsight, the code was grotesque, but at least it worked!

It pains me to know that a lot of people out there who code haven't even heard of a version control system