PracticalBot
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Your first ever paid programming experience?
For me it's a toss up between two possibles (I can't remember which was first).
It was either getting a command line (MS DOS) thing that controlled printers and output text from files to your printer being published as a handy utility on one of those disks we used to get taped to the front cover of a magazine (Might have been PC World I can't remember. What was the one with 'The Bugs' cartoon near the back page?) or, a crossword solving application (also DOS based written in Borland Turbo C) that let you put blanks and letters then gave you all possible solutions or allowed you to figure out anagrams. I was quite proud of that one at the time, I used upper case letters for actual letters then lower case (and special characters) for compression - so 'G' was a G but 'g' was 'ING'. I still have the source code for the latter
I used to get people sending me a cheque for £5 so they could receive, in return through the post, a floppy...
For me it's a toss up between two possibles (I can't remember which was first).
It was either getting a command line (MS DOS) thing that controlled printers and output text from files to your printer being published as a handy utility on one of those disks we used to get taped to the front cover of a magazine (Might have been PC World I can't remember. What was the one with 'The Bugs' cartoon near the back page?) or, a crossword solving application (also DOS based written in Borland Turbo C) that let you put blanks and letters then gave you all possible solutions or allowed you to figure out anagrams. I was quite proud of that one at the time, I used upper case letters for actual letters then lower case (and special characters) for compression - so 'G' was a G but 'g' was 'ING'. I still have the source code for the latter
I used to get people sending me a cheque for £5 so they could receive, in return through the post, a floppy...
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