20+ years ago when I was 16 I spent months to learn Turbo Pascal. Those were the days of reading thick books and diving into code samples you grabbed from your

20+ years ago when I was 16 I spent months to learn Turbo Pascal. Those were the days of reading thick books and diving into code samples you grabbed from your near BBS. I was working on a project to predict soccer games results based on past games and help gamblers spread their risk wisely. Looking backwards only now I understand how complex and big the codebase was and not sure how I survived to tell (no coding guidelines back then, the source was huge spaghetti mass, but a working one). Anyhow, the project got traction and a software publishing house started to sell it in computer shops nation-wide. Boxed software, 1.44" floppies. The good old days. It also earned me a decent money. -- Since then I've wrote thousands of code lines and stretched my expertise to leading development and product teams. I consider this project and those days to be my best tech-school, where I gained much more than in my BSc. Looking at the kids these days copy-pasting StackOverFlow solutions makes me think something is missing in their foundations.