On: Learning to code kept me sane when I was a diploma...

[vikp]

I thought this way before, and looked down on what I had made, but I'm slowly coming around to the idea that its more about how well the approach works and what it teaches you than about the technical details. I definitely wouldn't code it the same way today, but it worked well and taught me a lot. I wouldn't stop anyone who's in a similar position from doing the same.

[bluedino → vikp]

The worst that could have happened was that you talked yourself out of automating it because there wasn't an 'easy way'

[vxNsr → vikp]

I also have to wonder if you even could have used a api-approach, especially for that second db which was it's own program and was likely monkeyed together by interns over a summer.