[HN Gopher] A Hobby Coding Biography
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       A Hobby Coding Biography
        
       Author : asicsp
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2023-12-30 12:10 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | marginalia_nu wrote:
       | This was written largely as a result of the "challenging
       | problems" thread that made the rounds a while back[1]. Not really
       | suggesting anyone copies these projects, more of a "well
       | actually, what problems have I tackled?"
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       | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38768678
        
       | MichaelAza wrote:
       | Very interesting. If I try to think back, my first hobby project
       | must have been in 10th grade. At that point I very well nearly
       | memorized the C# part of the MSDN, as well as CLR via C# and some
       | other programmimg books (maybe GoF?) but haven't actually written
       | any code that does anything useful. In 10th grade everyone in our
       | class was doing some sort of ASP.NET project for school and a lot
       | of the other students were having trouble with the data layer and
       | SQL stuff, so I decided to code up an ORM (a thing I knew
       | existed, but haven't actually used) and later a utility library
       | for exposing REST APIs which were both used by most of my
       | classmates. It was a fun project. Later projects included a
       | script that tells you where to live based on your public transit
       | needs, a wordle clone for the original GameBoy, and probably
       | other even less useful stuff.
        
       | mikewarot wrote:
       | It wasn't a hobby project, but I wrote a non-preemptive
       | multitasker / co-routine library for Turbo Pascal under MS-DOS
       | back in the 1990s.
       | 
       | I wrote a Forth in Assembler for OS/2 that somehow found an
       | audience in Germany, Forth/2. I was told that you _couldn 't
       | write programs in Assembler for OS/2_, so I had to prove
       | otherwise. 9-)
        
         | marginalia_nu wrote:
         | > I was told that you couldn't write programs in Assembler for
         | OS/2, so I had to prove otherwise. 9-)
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         | A surprising amount of interesting software was written to
         | prove a point :P
        
         | bombcar wrote:
         | The number of people who think you can't call advanced OS
         | functions from assembly is ... way too high.
        
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