How old did you start programming?
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
I started about 13 I guess - first using BBC Basic at school and then on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. :)
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
I started with the macros in Access 95. That isn't really programming, but that is what made me interested in 'controlling' a computer. That's why I always encourage people who are interested, but aren't sure about programming, to start from a higher level, and if they found it OK, then learn the next lower level, all the way down to OS level api.
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
I was 12 years old when I discovered something called BASIC on my toy computer. Once I figured out what it was for and how to use it I was hooked for life. I then discovered QBASIC 1.1 on my real computer and then I really fell in love with programming.
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
I used to watch my brother do it - he was 12, I was 8... a few years after that I was writing my own programs. First beginner programs were on a TRS/80 model 1 using BASIC... Then Z/80 assembly... Then assembly on an Apple II... Then Pascal on a 128K 1984 Macintosh... Then C, C++ on both macs & windows machines... Some professional forays into PowerScript and LotusScript... ...and lately C# for WinForms and ASP.NET applications. Still feeling young though...
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
Cool thread idea. I was about 15 ( I can't remember ), and it was an Apple ][. Funny enough, the private school I got kicked out of didn't have a computer lab, the public school that took me in, did. I saw the Apples, and I fell in love. I had money in the bank ( my mum put the money the government gave her for us, in the bank ), and I spent it on an Apple ][ clone, I joined AUSOM ( the local computer club ), and I was hooked. In fact, I often say that I failed most of high school because I spent my time playing on the computer and programming. Which worked out pretty well for me in the end, but I won't advocate it to my kids.... I passed year 11 after being kicked out of home in the last term. I don't think I passed anything else, in all of high school. I did a TAFE VOC course, got an A in computing, A's for maths, and failed the rest. I did a computer operators certificate, but I didn't attend the mid year exams, mostly in disgust.
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
I changed careers. Didn't properly start programming until my 30s. Though I did do some engineering programming in my 20s.
Kevin
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
Around 12-13. TI-BASIC on a very old TI99/4A. Moved to GW-BASIC on a nearly-as-old IBM PC-AT. Moved to QBASIC. Moved to assembler in DEBUG.EXE on MSDOS 6. Moved to Turbo C++. Moved to Borland C++ on OS/2. Moved to GNU Objective C. Moved to straight GNU C. Moved to DJGPP (GNU C) and assembler in NASM on MSDOS 6. Moved to GNU C on Linux. Moved to MS VC++ 6 on Windows NT 4 / Windows 95. Etc. etc...
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
IBM-AT, 6MHz, 512Mb RAM
What?
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
Programming or using a computer? Its hard to remember but I believe I started programming basic in 1982 when I was 10 and in 6th grade. I started on a commodore vic 20 and my first program was a modification of a states and capitals application. I first learned the logic of the randomization and figured out how to modify that to use the application for some other purpose. All this before I had even had an algebra class...
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
I was 19 when I stated coding and 25 when I purchased my first computer. My high school didn't have computers generally available so I didn't know anything about them. I guess I should consider myself lucky for it, otherwise I doubt I would have ran track, played football and, gotten my first black belt. Once I got around computers at the university it was if a whole new world became available to me.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
IBM-AT, 6MHz, 512Mb RAM
What?
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
Started off I guess at about 10 when Dad asked me to look into doing a website for his company. After that he started me of on :shudder: :rolleyes: VB6 and continue with that for a few years. After that I moved onto VB.NET & then decided to try this C# thing out. After that I was hooked well and truly, never been back to VB style if I can help it. Learnt ANSI C afterwards doing some embedded software development. Then after I did my GCSEs (2004 I think) I got a summer job at a local company and wrote a couple of small programmers for their electronic systems for them (in VB6 X|). Also did a little ASP development for them as well. The next summer I went back to work for them for 4 weeks and spent most of the time upgrading the apps I wrote the last summer. After that I went out to Spain for 3 weeks and wrote some rainflow analysis code for this little thing: http://www.picotux.com This year I was offered a place at Imperial College London to study electronics (unlike some people here I'm not afraid of high voltage electric shocks (have been hit once (and only once thank god) by 240V). But was diagnosed with cancer so Imperial suggested I take a gap year, which I am doing so. The local company had contacted my just after my exams to see if I was interested in writing an database thing for them (originally only during the summer) but since I've got the whole year now the specs have changed slightly. Two good things have come of it, I've got a decently paid job for the year and because of the chemotherapy they don't want me in the office so I get to work from home. So I spend some time now doing work (usually late at night) :->, and spend the rest of the time either shooting, working on the Land Rover (new chassis arrived today :cool:) or playing games. What a life! Who want to go to Uni? me actually since London is a fantastic place to study (IMO)
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
I was 15 (a sophmore in high school) using a teletype hooked up to the School Districts mainframe; A Burroughs something-or-other. I hacked a basic language football game that we would play so I had secret "touchdown" play. Later I moved to a Commadore 64.
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
I was 21 or so. College required FORTRAN IV, so I paper-programmed FORTRAN II before starting school from a dog eared book at the library. First computer was a Z-80 with 16k RAM fed by lots of toggle switches one byte at a time. CPU opcode was the only language it knew until I wrote the operating system and an assembler for it. Once I designed and built an interface to a teletype machine with a paper tape punch/reader it became a smokin' powerhouse of computing.:rolleyes:
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
It started @ age 15, aunt asked "do you know what integers are?" then by age 21 got a Tandy color computer where I learned machine language, then a hyundai 8088 - 20 M HDD , I learned DOS,now @57 -C++,C#,Asm,basic Vbasic
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
My first personal computer was an S100 bus system running CP/M. 64K (not MB) of RAM, 5 serial ports, 2 parallel ports and a Televideo 925 terminal, 2 QUME DT8 8" floppies DSDD for 2.5MB storage. My language of choice was Pascal. That was back in 1981. I had already been writing code professionally for 6 years but wrote my very first program in college in 1967; Fortran and I don't even remember the type of computer it was. Probably IBM.
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Just wondering: how old were you when you start programming? maybe had your first computer? - I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!) - Programming language: Basic, then..Assembler for Commodore 64
6 or 7 I think. First computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, bought for Christmas 1984. Sinclair Basic, then Z80 assembler.
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