At my very first coding job, I was hired to update the design of a .net webforms website. My academic background was in java. There was no on the job training.

At my very first coding job, I was hired to update the design of a .net webforms website. My academic background was in java. There was no on the job training. It was just me, 2 C# books, and stackoverflow. I remember writing monolith methods/functions with 1000+ lines of code. I remember manually generating SQL as a string for ado.net. I also remember being unaware of stringbuilder and doing tons on += on strings and wondering why the application was slow. Looking back now at my first time, it seems funny more than embarrassing. I remember it fondly.