The day I deleted my 3 year old beginner project folder last week

I was cleaning out my Google Drive last Tuesday and found this folder called "stuff i made" from when I first started learning Python. It had things like a calculator that broke if you typed letters, and a text adventure game where the dragon always ate you no matter what. I deleted it without even opening most files. But now I kind of wish I kept at least one of them just to see how far I've come. Does anyone else look back at their old code and cringe or is it just me?

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jamie_clark7d ago

I mean, I actually kinda disagree with the cringing part. Seeing old messy code is the best way to realize you actually learned something, so losing that stuff feels like a missed chance to appreciate yourself.

zarapalmer7d agoMost Upvoted

Five years of bad code files still sitting on my old laptop. I open them sometimes to laugh. But keeping all of it is a waste of hard drive space. The real progress shows up in the new projects you build, not the garbage you wrote at 3 AM. You don't need a timestamped museum of mistakes to prove you got better. Just look at what you can do now versus what you struggled with last year.