Ask HN: What was your first programming milestone?
I've just started my first big (personal) project. What was your first programming milestone, and why?
My first program was a little dancing stick figure, which my father helped me to write when I was about 6. I wrote my first program without assistance (it drew a few circles) a year and a half later.
To this day, I believe that's the biggest and most important milestone in my programming career.
I'm just in the process of building a program in ruby inspired by a comment in Learn to Program (Chris Pine). I want to make a interactive 'pet' (or plant, for that matter) with an ascii-art output. It's a big challenge for me, but I'm enjoying doing it!