For my first instructional posting, I thought that I’d reach back to one of my finest failures in my history of being a programmer. This little tale harkens back to when I was first starting out in programming, back to my freshmen year in college. I never did a lick of programming prior to entering college, unless you count hacking away at the BASIC source code for that hidden artillery game in DOS 5.0 when I was supposed to be paying attention in high school typing class. Actually, doing that was quite fun, making the explosion radius half the size of the screen — I even showed the trouble maker in the class how to do it, which promptly got him in trouble with the teacher. He never did have that innate instinct for ALT-tabbing when said instructor was walking past you.

Note quite the same game (this is from Blarworld.net), but close in appearance.

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