by Dan Draper

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Lessons from 25 years of coding

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Way back in 1994, I started learning how to code. I look back on those early days of experimentation with great fondness. My journey kicked off after a friend of mine showed me a program he’d written in QBASIC on his IBM 386 PC. I was mesmerised by the idea of being able to control the PC with lines of code.