the easy answer is hello world lol
i did it in java

It was a bot (powered by a Tampermonkey userscript) that posted facts about cats in the Pretend You're Xyzzy general chat

wrote a warrior cat game

not sure if it was my first project, but i remember vagely writing a simple chat system

Iirc I think it was a small exercise that extrapolated the growth of an example rabbit population

Something for a middle school class probably

I "forked" someone else's Code Lyoko supercomputer simulator, which got me started in learning Batch on windows. I still have the code in my archives. I had posted it on a forum and got a beta tester, who ended up teaching me to code over MSN and VNC. I moved cross country to be near him as I started my software dev career 8 years later.

I wrote some JS stuffs for my own lil website.
Also I did some own lil mIRC plugin.

sorta yea

I started with Discord bots and honestly didn't advance past that for a long time :3

My old projects are absolutely miserable but they did help me learn the basics of coding. Nowadays I know better than to chain 20 .then(() => {'s in a row though. God I still hate thinking about that.

my dad had this cartridge for the atari that came with directions on how to write a simple “hello world” and that was probably the first thing i ever coded. i would’ve been around 7 or 8 i think?

My first personal project... I think it was a network information utility in .NET 3.5. (2014-03-07 last modified)

The first thing I ever coded was a simple sprite. In Assembler.

i remember making the ugliest sntry builder known to man

I'm not sure of the first thing I ever coded, but one of the first things I coded when I was little was a program on the Tandy Color Computer 2 that made discs out of concentric circles in random spots on the screen while playing increasing notes.. for some reason the computer rendered the the circles with colors in them (I imagine it was some kind of subpixel rendering to make them more round), so the disks looked a lot like CDs with their iridescence.