DevCode 2001 — Retro IDE with Real School Code from 1997–2004

DevCode 2001 is a browser-based retro IDE styled after Dev-C++ from the early 2000s. It displays real source code written as school assignments between 1997 and 2004 — QBasic, C++, Java, and Scheme — preserved exactly as submitted, bugs and all.

The code files include a QBasic program (13-2.BAS) written around 1997, a C++ laser-shooting game (shootlaser.cpp) and radix sort implementation (prog8.cpp) from a late 1990s or early 2000s programming class, a Java Dining Philosophers concurrency solution (DiningPhilosphers.java) from a college operating systems course circa 2003–2004, and a Scheme recursive program (problem1.scm) from a functional programming course around the same period.

The IDE also includes all seven problems from the 2004 ACM ICPC Mid-Central Regional programming competition, presented as they would have appeared during the contest. Problems include Flow Layout, Ink Blots, Permutation Code, Primary X-Subfactor Series, Speed Limit, Symmetric Order, and a seventh problem with associated diagrams.

When this code was reviewed by AI more than two decades later, it found mistakes — the kind that were common in student work of the era. The IDE preserves the originals without correction, leaving it to the reader to find them.

A scratch note inside the IDE references a story from AP Programming class during the 1999–2000 school year. A classmate kept talking up some band called Tenacious D to anyone who would listen — before they had broken through. He was ahead of his time.