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
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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John
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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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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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cool! Same for me. BASIC got me hooked first.
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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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Yea! actually, I think programming is the best job (...unless someone is stopping your creativity).
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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 was my third career (previous were professional musician, sales & consulting), started coding when I was 32. Prior to learning C (circa 1989, IBM PC 4/8 mhz, 256k RAM, 5mb hard drive), I didn't know how to type, and I honestly thought that programming a computer involved taking the lid off and grabbing a soldering iron. So if you think I'm clueless today, you shoulda known me then... I crashed with some friends, studied 12 to 16 hours a day nonstop for 5 months, and then got a job. It's been good to me, but I'm currently working on career number four. I get bored easily. :-D
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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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John
One of my program was so long that BASIC could not run (-not enough memory-). So, I switched to commodore 64-128.
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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
13 yers old - Sinclair ZX Spectrum with 16 kb ROM and (wait for this) 48 kb RAM. First language: Sinclair Basic, followed by Z80 assembly, then Fortran, C,... currently learning Haskell
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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
The first thing I ever did was crash a PDP-11 when I was 11 or so by typing Ctrl+C. I was following the directions, no less! Started coding in BASIC at 12, and teaching it to others at 13. Marc
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There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith