My first attempt at programming was in 8th grade (mid 20's now) using VB. I remember writing a program that converted text to pig latin and I was so proud of it

My first attempt at programming was in 8th grade (mid 20's now) using VB. I remember writing a program that converted text to pig latin and I was so proud of it. Despite majoring in engineering, I only had to take some intro programming courses and used a bit of Matlab. Well, fast forward to about 8 months ago I came up with an idea for a web-app and decided that now was the perfect time to become good at programming. For about 2 months straight I spent at least 3 hours every day following tutorials and tried to create little algorithms in PHP (sort an array, find largest number in an array, count the instances of a character in a string, etc...). After ~200 hours I felt comfortable enough to start writing the web-app. I'm amazed how far I've come in the past ~8 months. Not to hijack this post, but does anyone else remember their first "cool" program?