When I see such projects, I try to remember how I learned to code.
And I certainly didn't do such practices.
First thing I did, was mIRC-script most of it copied from other scripts and retrofitted.
I think this was a good start, since I got something useful out of it and it increased my interest in coding. I didn't understand much of it, not even arrays.
But I wrote a web-crawler with this basic knowledge and a copy of a TCP socket example, got some data from a website, used 10 vars (the start-page of the news site just showed 10 articles at once lol) to save and modify it and spam the titles in the channels, with links to it.
I was intrigued by this power I got, even if I didn't understood much of it, fusing web and irc together, I felt like a hacker...
Later I went to a IT school, studied computer science etc.
Most of this basic stuff was boring and I just did it because I knew it would increase my power over things that interested me, but if I didn't had this "aha-moment" in my youth, I couldn't bring up the motivation...
And I certainly didn't do such practices.
First thing I did, was mIRC-script most of it copied from other scripts and retrofitted.
I think this was a good start, since I got something useful out of it and it increased my interest in coding. I didn't understand much of it, not even arrays.
But I wrote a web-crawler with this basic knowledge and a copy of a TCP socket example, got some data from a website, used 10 vars (the start-page of the news site just showed 10 articles at once lol) to save and modify it and spam the titles in the channels, with links to it.
I was intrigued by this power I got, even if I didn't understood much of it, fusing web and irc together, I felt like a hacker...
Later I went to a IT school, studied computer science etc.
Most of this basic stuff was boring and I just did it because I knew it would increase my power over things that interested me, but if I didn't had this "aha-moment" in my youth, I couldn't bring up the motivation...