Five Formative Code Snippets

Here are five personally meaningful and impactful code samples I wrote or encountered from grade school into college, each thanks to an involved teacher, parent or peer. Tip of the hat I was inspired to write this after enjoying Ten Lines Of Code That Changed My World by Roel Nieskens, who encouraged me to share my own. I strayed from the prompt based on what I dug up. Code can be simple My sixth-grade teacher Mr. Wong showed me how to use QuickBASIC on an outdated PC in our classroom. I remember my first program being similar to this: Language: BASIC10 CLS 20 INPUT "Hello! What's your name"; name$ 30 PRINT name$; " is really cool!!!" 40 GOTO 30 I saw “Tyler is really cool!!!” flood the screen and realized programming was not rocket science. I’d seen the man behind the curtain, and my interest was piqued. Soon I was writing rudimentary fortune tellers, games of chance and unfinished text adventures in my spare time. Code can be multimedia The same year I learned BASIC, my (slightly…