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Jeez, I was crwaling through the member listing when it hit me...you guys are all WAY older than me. I think the only one I saw who was even remotely close was David Wulff. But he's still 3 years older than me. (I'm 15 currently. Born in '86.) When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. When I went to DevDays 2002, the MC had me stand up out of a room of at least 3 to 500 and said that he wished that he had been going to Microsoft events at my age. I don't know any other 15 year olds that program (some of my friends do HTML in FrontPage, but that's not really programming). Are there any other 15 year olds on CP? David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet
I know someone who was doing very good C and TCL at age 12. He was also a very good unix user/admin. He is probably ~15-16 now and doing ASM. -Jack To an optimist the glass is half full. To a pessimist the glass is half empty. To a programmer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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I would be 13 :) And I don't just do web pages in FrontPage. I do Visual C++, .NET with C#, XML, XSLT, ASP.NET, and of course XHTML, CSS, and JScript.NET. Oh, and there was that game I made using DirectX 8.1, but that never got finished.
-Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] MadHamster Creations "I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."
Surely you jest. Are you 13?? Besides, XML isn't programming. Neither is CSS, XHTML, or XSLT. DirectX isn't a language. ASP.Net really isn't a language either because you can use other languages within it. So really, you know C++, C#, and JScript.net. David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet
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Domenic [CPUA 0x1337] wrote: that game I made using DirectX 8.1, but that never got finished. I see a great future for you on the Duke Nukem Forever development team :-D Michael :-)
Michael P Butler wrote: I see a great future for you on the Duke Nukem Forever development team Harsh words, I can't number the amount of "dream" projects I have started and never finished. However that doesn't mean I can't finish a paying project. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"
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Michael P Butler wrote: I see a great future for you on the Duke Nukem Forever development team Harsh words, I can't number the amount of "dream" projects I have started and never finished. However that doesn't mean I can't finish a paying project. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"
****Colin Davies wrote: However that doesn't mean I can't finish a paying project. I think it's sad that it comes to this. I know I had dozens of projects I neglected at various points of their existance(some as ideas, some as almost completed applications), but I still finished what was important to me. I figure every programmer should always have one personal project in the making, even if it spans over years - the main idea is fulfilling your small dreams - regardless of financial profit. Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large. Sonork ID 100.13704
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I didn't have the bandwidth to visit the lounge at age 15 :) However I did start at 17 and am currently 18 so there are a few that are close to your age. If memory serves me I believe there were some 13/14 year olds that were around a while ago. -:suss:Matt Newman / Anti-Linux Activist:suss: -Sonork ID: 100.11179:BestSnowman
†I didn't have a/ the bandwidth, b/ a modem ( they were 1200/75 or 300/300 at the time c/ Code Project, or d/ the world wide web to facilitate visiting when I was 15... :( Christian The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little. "I'm somewhat suspicious of STL though. My (test,experimental) program worked first time. Whats that all about??!?! - Jon Hulatt, 22/3/2002
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****Colin Davies wrote: However that doesn't mean I can't finish a paying project. I think it's sad that it comes to this. I know I had dozens of projects I neglected at various points of their existance(some as ideas, some as almost completed applications), but I still finished what was important to me. I figure every programmer should always have one personal project in the making, even if it spans over years - the main idea is fulfilling your small dreams - regardless of financial profit. Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large. Sonork ID 100.13704
Isaac Sasson wrote: I think it's sad that it comes to this. No not really. A lot of my pet projects or at home projects was stuff that was far more difficult then anything at work, and just working on it was fun. Completion would have been nice, but then another interesting project would appear. One of my "projects" was a solution to "Rubiks Cube", years later I found so many other people had been working on similar stuff, and had done so much better than me. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"
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Surely you jest. Are you 13?? Besides, XML isn't programming. Neither is CSS, XHTML, or XSLT. DirectX isn't a language. ASP.Net really isn't a language either because you can use other languages within it. So really, you know C++, C#, and JScript.net. David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet
David Stone wrote: Neither is ... XSLT. I think that one is bordering very near the definition. ____________________ David Wulff It's in our nature to destroy ourselves. It's in our nature to kill ourselves. It's in our nature to kill each other. It's in our nature to kill kill kill. - Blood Brothers by Papa Roach; album: Infest
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Domenic [CPUA 0x1337] wrote: that game I made using DirectX 8.1, but that never got finished. I see a great future for you on the Duke Nukem Forever development team :-D Michael :-)
I think everyone has a project or two that they didn't finish because they didn't find time, and it was outside the areas they needed to throw their energies into. Mine is a 3D Asteroids game. On that basis, I took this as a ( very funny ) dig at the Duke Nukem team and not at the guy who posted at all, because who *doesn't* have an unfinished project at home ? Christian The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little. "I'm somewhat suspicious of STL though. My (test,experimental) program worked first time. Whats that all about??!?! - Jon Hulatt, 22/3/2002
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Jeez, I was crwaling through the member listing when it hit me...you guys are all WAY older than me. I think the only one I saw who was even remotely close was David Wulff. But he's still 3 years older than me. (I'm 15 currently. Born in '86.) When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. When I went to DevDays 2002, the MC had me stand up out of a room of at least 3 to 500 and said that he wished that he had been going to Microsoft events at my age. I don't know any other 15 year olds that program (some of my friends do HTML in FrontPage, but that's not really programming). Are there any other 15 year olds on CP? David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet
Well, I'm easily old enough to be your father (and to many more around here). But I know of at least one person who's old enough to be your grand father. And he's still coding every day. :-) (oh, that smile was an effort.....I'll have to go and have a little sleep now...) Russell Robinson (russellr@rootsoftware.com) Author of TTMaker (Advanced Timetabling Software) http://www.rootsoftware.com
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Well, I'm easily old enough to be your father (and to many more around here). But I know of at least one person who's old enough to be your grand father. And he's still coding every day. :-) (oh, that smile was an effort.....I'll have to go and have a little sleep now...) Russell Robinson (russellr@rootsoftware.com) Author of TTMaker (Advanced Timetabling Software) http://www.rootsoftware.com
:laugh: All I can say is that I'm 37 and would never go back and redo the teen years. I'm perfectly content with my life as it stands now. Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
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I didn't have the bandwidth to visit the lounge at age 15 :) However I did start at 17 and am currently 18 so there are a few that are close to your age. If memory serves me I believe there were some 13/14 year olds that were around a while ago. -:suss:Matt Newman / Anti-Linux Activist:suss: -Sonork ID: 100.11179:BestSnowman
†ha! they didn't have "bandwidth" when I was 15 ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
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Jeez, I was crwaling through the member listing when it hit me...you guys are all WAY older than me. I think the only one I saw who was even remotely close was David Wulff. But he's still 3 years older than me. (I'm 15 currently. Born in '86.) When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. When I went to DevDays 2002, the MC had me stand up out of a room of at least 3 to 500 and said that he wished that he had been going to Microsoft events at my age. I don't know any other 15 year olds that program (some of my friends do HTML in FrontPage, but that's not really programming). Are there any other 15 year olds on CP? David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet
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ha! they didn't have "bandwidth" when I was 15 ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: ha! they didn't have "bandwidth" when I was 15 Yeah we had baud, I wonder what happened to it ? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"
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:laugh: All I can say is that I'm 37 and would never go back and redo the teen years. I'm perfectly content with my life as it stands now. Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
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Chris Maunder wrote: ha! they didn't have "bandwidth" when I was 15 Yeah we had baud, I wonder what happened to it ? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"
It got too old :-P James Sonork: Hasaki "I left there in the morning with their God tucked underneath my arm their half-assed smiles and the book of rules. So I asked this God a question and by way of firm reply, He said - I'm not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays." "Wind Up" from Aqualung, Jethro Tull 1971
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Jeez, I was crwaling through the member listing when it hit me...you guys are all WAY older than me. I think the only one I saw who was even remotely close was David Wulff. But he's still 3 years older than me. (I'm 15 currently. Born in '86.) When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. When I went to DevDays 2002, the MC had me stand up out of a room of at least 3 to 500 and said that he wished that he had been going to Microsoft events at my age. I don't know any other 15 year olds that program (some of my friends do HTML in FrontPage, but that's not really programming). Are there any other 15 year olds on CP? David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet
Wow. You're young. I'm 24. Took my first programming class (BASIC) when I was 17. Hated it. Took a 1.5 year hiatus from programming. Got my first computer. Took three classes (C++) at the university. Landed my job 3 years ago. All in all, it's been a fun ride, but you'll be much farther along than I was. I had to struggle to keep up with classmates who had been programming since their early teens. On the other hand, I had a helluva social life until I got serious about programming, so I guess there are tradeoffs you have to make. :) Jon Sagara There is no spoon. Best Miniputt score: 21
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Jeez, I was crwaling through the member listing when it hit me...you guys are all WAY older than me. I think the only one I saw who was even remotely close was David Wulff. But he's still 3 years older than me. (I'm 15 currently. Born in '86.) When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. When I went to DevDays 2002, the MC had me stand up out of a room of at least 3 to 500 and said that he wished that he had been going to Microsoft events at my age. I don't know any other 15 year olds that program (some of my friends do HTML in FrontPage, but that's not really programming). Are there any other 15 year olds on CP? David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet
David Stone wrote: When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. I started programming when I was around 14, so your absolute age difference might be very large here, but I bet alot of people here started very early. You're in good company :) Now here's something cool: Back when I was a sophomore in highschool (~1994) I did lots of programming in ObjectWindows (OWL - an MFC-like library that Borland used to make). I worked on a few smaller projects of my own, and helped out with some code on other people's projects. One of the projects I helped a little bit with was a Property-Page dialog for use in Windows 3.1 (the Tab control didn't make its appearnce until windows 95). I graduated from college four months ago, and am currently working for a company as a software engineer. As it happens, this company developed a large and very successful product back in the earlier to mid 90's using OWL. Today I was just browsing over some of this products source, and lo and behold, code that I worked on back in 1994 - back when I was in highschool - is in there! With programming, age doesn't mean squat when compared with mental maturity. If you've got the latter, the former doesn't really mean much at all. Happy coding! -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.
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Jeez, I was crwaling through the member listing when it hit me...you guys are all WAY older than me. I think the only one I saw who was even remotely close was David Wulff. But he's still 3 years older than me. (I'm 15 currently. Born in '86.) When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. When I went to DevDays 2002, the MC had me stand up out of a room of at least 3 to 500 and said that he wished that he had been going to Microsoft events at my age. I don't know any other 15 year olds that program (some of my friends do HTML in FrontPage, but that's not really programming). Are there any other 15 year olds on CP? David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet
8 years ago...I was your age. ;P There is a smaller percentage of people who program at your age...probably cuz when your younger your more interested in TV and video games...i'm not a fan of either...I got into programming when I was really young indirectly through an interest in flight simulator. I wanted to be a pilot. Had it not been for this, I definetly wouldn't be so into computers...mow many pre-teens do you know like flying aimlessly around a virtual world...? Most of my friends at that age wanted arcade shoot em' up...same goes for programming...none of my friends were interested in dos/win3.1 programming...Now 'a days ;P kids have it way easier...HTML...gees...it's easy...and you see colorful results immediately...programming still is very challenging, but VB click and drag make it much easier than back in the day. ;P I figure most people on here are abouts my age cuz were all born at the right time...IT boom/crash made it nessecary for lots of people my age to go to IT schools and quickly get high paying jobs...some of them were probably even computer dorks before that...;P 15 is a young age for anything as technical as programming...some people are born curious...I remember taking apart lawn mowers RC cars...bikes and (trying) to put them back togather. :laugh: Man my dad would ge upset... I personally don't regret making sacrifices as a younger individual...programming or reading instead of homework or hanging out w/ friends...was totally worth while... Just think...if you know this much now...how good will you be in 5 years when your 20...? If you take comp sci. in uni...you won't even have to study so you can party with the hotties in uni...full grown women....thats the stuff. ;) Just remember to finish high school, cuz not many uni's will accept you without Gr. 12 "Ten-Four little buddy" :) "An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr
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David Stone wrote: I like being able to talk to you guys and learn what you know. Then you've come to the right place! CP combines 2 of the 3 most important things in life: humor and knowledge. If CP had some women around, it would have been heaven... Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large. Sonork ID 100.13704
Isaac Sasson wrote: If CP had some women around, it would have been heaven... I wont be too sure about that. The women we currently have are quite ok. But if you want the fun-girls in, then CP would rot and CPians with it. Nish
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Well, yeh you're the youngest here IMO. I'm almost 18 and it's average here. Mosts are 20+ and there are older too. But, what do you care ? :-) - Dan "Intel inside - Idiot outside"
That Domenic guy is only 13 :-) Nish
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