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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
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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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If I am awake and my eyes are closed, it does not necessarily mean that I am thinking of naked women._
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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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If I am awake and my eyes are closed, it does not necessarily mean that I am thinking of naked women._
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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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If I am awake and my eyes are closed, it does not necessarily mean that I am thinking of naked women._
Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: and CPians with it. I wouldn't mind rotting that way :) It'd suck for CP to rot though 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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ha! they didn't have "bandwidth" when I was 15 ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: they didn't have "bandwidth" when I was 15 Obviously. You are soooo old Chris. ;-) Nish
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If I am awake and my eyes are closed, it does not necessarily mean that I am thinking of naked women._
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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: Duke Nukem Forever Hey, is it out yet? Nish
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If I am awake and my eyes are closed, it does not necessarily mean that I am thinking of naked women._
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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: Surely you jest. Are you 13?? No he is not jesting :-) Domenic is indeed 13 and the youngest active CPian Nish
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If I am awake and my eyes are closed, it does not necessarily mean that I am thinking of naked women._
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I'm 34 and started programming when I was 13. I have to use a 21" monitor set at 640x480 and have to take naps every 30 mins now. Joel
Joel Matthias wrote: I have to use a 21" monitor set at 640x480 and have to take naps every 30 mins now. That was a subtle way of lettin people know that you have a 21" monitor :-( Nish
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If I am awake and my eyes are closed, it does not necessarily mean that I am thinking of naked women._
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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
HockeyDude wrote: Just think...if you know this much now...how good will you be in 5 years when your 20...? It does not really work that way. technologies keep changing. Nish
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If I am awake and my eyes are closed, it does not necessarily mean that I am thinking of naked women._
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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
HockeyDude wrote: programming or reading instead of homework or hanging out w/ friends...was totally worth while... I agree with that :) HockeyDude wrote: you can party with the hotties in uni...full grown women What uni did you go to? Michigan Tech didn't have any hotties, then again it is an engineering school located in the snowy north; two things most women hate :-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
Currently I'm 20, but I started programming with QuickBasic when I was around 10 (I learned LOGO before, when I was 8 or 9, if it counts). By 12 or 13 I could develop good apps in C using the SDK for Windows 3.1 (Remember developing in C a clone of a VB Free System Resources Monitor I saw in Windows Sources magazine, I was 12). Later I learned Win32, MFC, HTML, VB (I learned first C/SDK than VB), and more recently ASP programming. (Un)fortunately when I grew up a bit and started to go out with my friends, I stopped learning as much new things and programming. I also play less golf (I used to be scratch (+1 actually), now I still am, but don't play to it anymore). But now I'm looking to learn C#/Windows Forms and ASP.NET (what most interests me about .NET) but I have first to get Visual Studio.NET (and I can't afford it, maybe an academic editon of MSDN Universal ;P ). Cheers, -- LuisR ────────────── Luis Alonso Ramos Chihuahua, Mexico www.luisalonsoramos.com CPUA: 0xC0DE - No Sonork yet MiniPutt best: 20 "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater." -- Albert Einstein
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Michael P Butler wrote: Duke Nukem Forever Hey, is it out yet? Nish
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If I am awake and my eyes are closed, it does not necessarily mean that I am thinking of naked women._
Nope, I think it is the biggest case of vaporware we've seen to date :-P Duke Nukem Forever website. 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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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: and CPians with it. I wouldn't mind rotting that way :) It'd suck for CP to rot though 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
James T. Johnson wrote: I wouldn't mind rotting that way Same with me. Though both of us dont have much of an alternative eh? Nish
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If I am awake and my eyes are closed, it does not necessarily mean that I am thinking of naked women._
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Nope, I think it is the biggest case of vaporware we've seen to date :-P Duke Nukem Forever website. 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
James T. Johnson wrote: Nope, I think it is the biggest case of vaporware we've seen to date That's a bit sad. Duke Nukem 3D was one real cool game. Nish
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If I am awake and my eyes are closed, it does not necessarily mean that I am thinking of naked women._
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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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If I am awake and my eyes are closed, it does not necessarily mean that I am thinking of naked women._
Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: But if you want the fun-girls in, then CP would rot and CPians with it. What are you saying - fun girls can't be intelligent enough to keep up intersting and lively debates? I disagree - I know several clever and fun girls who I spend time with. It amazes me how people think women are so different to us guys - they might talk about sport less and be able to multi-task but that's about it in terms of mental difference as far as I can see, so why the 'shunning'? Just wondering, that's all... -- Andrew.
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****Matt Newman wrote: I didn't have the bandwidth to visit the lounge at age 15 My "bandwidth" is a 56K modem working like 2400BPS modem :-) :-) - Dan "Intel inside - Idiot outside"
That was kind of a joke about the insane amounts of posts in the lounge :) Dan Pomerchik wrote: 56K modem working like 2400BPS modem :( -:suss:Matt Newman / Anti-Linux Activist:suss: -Sonork ID: 100.11179:BestSnowman
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