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Found a box of old programming books in my parents' attic last weekend
It was a stack of thick paperbacks about Visual Basic 6 and C++ from the late 90s. I flipped through one and the code examples were all about making CD-ROM applications, lol. It's wild how much the starting point for beginners has changed, from buying a physical book to just watching a free YouTube tutorial. Anyone else have a funny old tech relic that shows how different learning to code used to be?
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thead441mo ago
Oh man, those CD-ROM examples are a time capsule! Honestly, keep a couple for the nostalgia but recycle the rest. The info is so outdated it's not even good for reference anymore. What did you end up doing with the box?
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wyatt_green1mo ago
Did you actually try running any of the old code examples to see if they still work?
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Totally agree with @thead44 about keeping a couple for nostalgia. Saw a video once where someone got a VB6 CD-ROM app running on a modern PC and it was a hilarious mess.
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