When I was in middle school, I had dabbled in coding but only knew how to make simple CLI applications that ran on the terminal. Then one day I stumbled on Lode

When I was in middle school, I had dabbled in coding but only knew how to make simple CLI applications that ran on the terminal. Then one day I stumbled on Lode's Computer Graphics Tutorial and I finally had easy to understand examples of how to open a window and draw some graphics on the screen. That led me to recreating a bunch of retro games (Pacman, Snake, Space Invaders, etc) that would not have been possible on the terminal. I credit this site for really kickstarting my career in software development from a somewhat early age. Big shout out and thank you to Lode. Back then, I practically memorized all the pages and examples in https://lodev.org/cgtutor/ https://lodev.org/cgtutor/, even if some of the math went right over my head at the time