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“Back then laptops didn't exist,” she tells us, “and we got one hour in a week to access computers in our school lab.

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Global Field Marketing Program Manager Sowmya Ramakrishnan wrote her own C++ code at 15 to sort numbers. We also learned programmers are a pretty dedicated bunch when it comes to seeing their inventions come to life. Then I added colors, wheels on my car, and the shape of the obstacles. Then I adjusted speed (the rate at which obstacles moved down from horizon). The possibilities! I got my car moving left to right. Once that was working, I was filled with excitement. “It took me forever to create obstacles (more squares) that came towards my car. The “first person driving game” Product Manager Eric Anderson created was essentially a square car and a horizon line, but he could see the potential. It was on an Atari 800 using the joystick and was not at all fun to play after the first 30 seconds.” But although technical sophistication wasn’t always in reach, the possibilities excited our engineers. “ an interactive graphic which had a space ship shooting downward at growing sticks. Jonathan Rochelle, Director, Product Management, also used BASIC to create his own game. I'm pretty sure 30% of my code was GOTO statements.” “A blocky-looking dragon, a blocky-looking sword, and a booby-trapped room where you had to avoid blocky-looking blocks that fell from the ceiling. Todd Kerpelman, a Firebase Developer Advocate, created his first in BASIC for the Apple IIe. “Terrible as it was, it inspired several of my friends to sling their own code.” Recognizing that IF and GOTO were enough to write any program, I disregarded my father's advice to use loops and subroutines.” But there was an unexpected upside to her efforts. “It was 20,000 lines of QBASIC spaghetti code. Jen Tong wrote a text adventure game in the mid-’90s. Not surprisingly, many Googlers started out by writing their own games. And, as it turns out, we discovered that many of our engineers have very patient parents. To celebrate, this year we asked our engineers to tell us about the first program they wrote that they were proud of. It should come as no surprise that Programmer’s Day has a special place in our hearts. Falling on the 256th day of the year, Programmer’s Day recognizes the works of programmers everywhere, from code hobbyists to technological innovators. From mobile phones to the internet, technology has revolutionized our lives - and we have programmers to thank for it.