The Many Incarnations Of EssayMaker
02 Dec 2015To this date, I believe I have written EssayMaker (or any similar project) about 8 times. I'd like to take you back, from the very first version I released in 2011 to the one I'm working on right now.
Story Maker 9000 (March 2011 - November 2011)
The first version of EssayMaker was not for essays but for stories, as at the time (I was 8 years old) I didn't really know what an essay was. In school we always just wrote short stories at the time, so I wrote this. I think originally I wrote it on an insomnia night, and I couldn't go to sleep so I just wrote it then and there. I released it in 2011, but I do remember working on much more of it before releasing it for the first time.
That was the first version I released, but if you want to see every version of Story Maker 9000, you can go here. All of these were written in a small language intended for children called Scratch. At the time, I was very interested in code but this was the easiest way that I could get started, so I just used it. These are very embarrassing to look at now, because of the amount of junk I put in there just to screw around. Still very nostalgic to think that I did these 4 years ago.
NonFiction Story (2013-2014)
NonFiction Story was the first project I made that was the most similar to EssayMaker as it is today. In school, we began to do essays, so I decided to make a new version of Story Maker just for essays, or, I guess "NonFiction Stories". It uses the same blocks and such that were in Story Maker, and other than that, it was essentially a more mature version of Story Maker for essays. This was, again, written in Scratch.
OCD (2014)
I wrote so many versions of EssayMaker in this year. Like, way too many.
- EssayMaker Batch
- Entirely written in Batch.
- Very bad.
- Still available over at my repository
oldcode.
- EssayMaker Console
- Entirely written in C#, but with an absense of GUI.
- Decent, but still pretty much bad.
- Not available at the moment, I believe I deleted it off of GitHub. Still a chance of it coming back in the
oldcoderepo.
- EssayMaker Winforms
- Entirely written in C#, but with a GUI. Uses Windows Forms.
- Pretty good, actually the most fully featured version yet. For better or worse.
- Available in old commits of the current EssayMaker repository.
- EssayMaker WPF
- Entirely written in C#, by a man by the name of High-Core. Prettier than EssayMaker Winforms.
- Good, but not written by me.
- Again, available in old commits of the current EssayMaker repository.
- EssayMaker Web
- One of the first projects I wrote on the web.
- Very barebones port of EssayMaker WPF.
- Weird, and very ugly.
- Available in old commits of the
gh-pagesbranch of the current EssayMaker repository.
EssayMaker (2015)
And, now we have the best version yet. The one I am currently developing on my own. You know the one. I've revamped everything, and created a fully featured web client for EssayMaker. It has a fresh coat of paint and a fresh rewrite of code. The eighth edition.
There you have it, folks. Every version of EssayMaker ever, and where to find them. Nostalgia forever.