After I learned Java (huge upgrade from QBasic btw) when I was a sophomore in high school in 2003, I built an online storefront application. Cute maybe? But, af

After I learned Java (huge upgrade from QBasic btw) when I was a sophomore in high school in 2003, I built an online storefront application. Cute maybe? But, after infinite feature creep (not that I knew what that was at the time), I ended up trying to build what was effectively Viaweb (not that I knew what that was at the time). Predictably, this was a disaster. In retrospect, I do not recommend Viaweb as an introductory Hello World web app. (I also do not recommend Java web programming in general.)