How old did you start programming?
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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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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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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
Probably 12 or so, my first "computer" was a pad of paper and a pencil and a programming book. I didn't have access to a computer so I wrote hypothetical programs on paper for when I could get my hands on one. Later on I bought my friends radio shack trs-80 colour computer and bought the assembly language add on cartridge and wrote a space invaders clone. Eventually I had it working with the casette port to interpret sounds spoken into the microphone so I could say "left" and "right" and it would move accordingly while shooting. I still remember learning backup panic in those days, I'd write out the program to a casette and have to do a few because it would randomly fail to read it back in. In high school we had commodore Super-PET pc's (with CPM) and I got to do some Basic programming for the first time but my assembly days came in handy when I found the manual for the SuperPet and learned how to Poke and Peek values into memory and cause all sorts of havoc in the computer lab like reversing all the text on the screen or shrinking the screen down to one bright point of light in the center or best of all stuffing data into the shared printing system buffer so the next guy who printed something would get the text I put in at the top of the page. Good times. :) To this day I still have a fondness for green text on a black background.
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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
Muhadeeb99 wrote:
Tandy color computer where I learned machine language
Cool! That was my first computer and programming language, I had the add on cartridge for assembly. I think it had 8 or 16kb of ram, I remember running into that limitation quite often.
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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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Roger Wright wrote:
I paper-programmed FORTRAN II before starting school
Cool! I did the same thing but with basic but then when I got my first computer it was assembly anyway so it was kind of wasted learning. People must laugh nowadays when people say they learned to program without a computer on paper but when you really want to learn something and you can't afford a computer...
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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
16 or 17, in high school. I took a GW Basic class. I didn't really understand or care what was going on. In fact, I'm not even sure why I took the class. I'm pretty sure the only reason I passed is because I spent the week before the final project going in for extra help because I didn't want a big fat F on my report card. I never did get the project to work properly. The first "real" programming I did ("real" as in I was actually interested in the subject matter and wanted to learn more) was when I was 18 and a freshman in college. I had to take a C programming course as part of my (then) EE degree. I was hooked. I took a C++ class the following summer, and after that I decided to switch my degree to computer engineering. That's how I got to where I am today. :)
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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:
"...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
I started programming when I was 17. The language that I learned was C. At first it was difficult to learn C but later on through constant practice I started to love C. But, I don't consider myself as an expert in C because there are still many things that I want to learn. Currently, I also know visual basic 6 and HTML. I wanted to concentrate myself on the learning more about C but because of different circumstances that came later in my life I haven't got the chance to practice. -- modified at 21:26 Monday 4th December, 2006
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Probably 12 or so, my first "computer" was a pad of paper and a pencil and a programming book. I didn't have access to a computer so I wrote hypothetical programs on paper for when I could get my hands on one. Later on I bought my friends radio shack trs-80 colour computer and bought the assembly language add on cartridge and wrote a space invaders clone. Eventually I had it working with the casette port to interpret sounds spoken into the microphone so I could say "left" and "right" and it would move accordingly while shooting. I still remember learning backup panic in those days, I'd write out the program to a casette and have to do a few because it would randomly fail to read it back in. In high school we had commodore Super-PET pc's (with CPM) and I got to do some Basic programming for the first time but my assembly days came in handy when I found the manual for the SuperPet and learned how to Poke and Peek values into memory and cause all sorts of havoc in the computer lab like reversing all the text on the screen or shrinking the screen down to one bright point of light in the center or best of all stuffing data into the shared printing system buffer so the next guy who printed something would get the text I put in at the top of the page. Good times. :) To this day I still have a fondness for green text on a black background.
Peek and poke times were good times indeed! :-D I have lost the green text on black background feeling! VC++ change my heart!
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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 13 and I can't remember the language. All I remember is that it was a collection of line numbers and gotos on a Commodore 64 at my grandfather's house, and I was trying to write a role playing game. Heh, first stab. And I kept getting mad that when my program crashed, which was everytime I ran it, I lost all my work and had to retype in the code. So I swore never to touch computers as my reaction. :doh: It wasn't til I was 26 when I started programming my TI-81 for a trig class that I started to work with computers again. Then it was Basic then C at which time I got my first computer, an IBM 386 with 4mb o ram, 15mb hardrive, Dos and Turbo C.
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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 think it was 1980 - I was 12. TRS-80 Model I with the expansion thingy. BASIC first then Z-80 Assembler. I stuck with assembler (Z-80 and 8088/86/286) for about five years before I resigned myself to writing stuff in C and Pascal which I learned at university. Cheers, Drew.
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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
1983 on an Atari 400...then to 600XL, then C64, then AtariST, then PC/XT, then AT, then 386, 486, Pentium and here we are today :) Remember 6502 assembler? very cool! Assembler to C then to C++ and stayed there. Tried Java etc but C++ is closer to the metal :) Those were the days! No Windows, no Internet - just my trusty 300bd modem and BBS.
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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 programming 12-13(language dbaseIII , basic ) then after a gap of few years (5-6) i get my first computer (pIII , 700 MHz, 64 mb RAM,20 GB hard drive)
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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 when I was 10 or so on a C64. Moved onto a 286 with GWBASIC/QBASIC and eventually to Pascal. Never looked at BASIC since :rolleyes: And since I discovered C++, never looked at Pascal since ;)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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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 back in 1981 with z80 assembler ... i remember when i first looked at a code listing i thought "what in gods name is this gibberish??" ... a few months later i knew the opcodes for the most common instructions and my (no)life as a geek began... :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
17, BASIC on a PDP.