How old did you start programming?
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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
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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.
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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
c64 -cooor we used to DREAM of having a C-64 started on zx81 then onto a vic-20 then finally C-64 :) Bryce
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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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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 SmithI didn't crash a PDP-11 until I learned Pascal.
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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 a little later, 14 if I recall. One of my friends got a computer (TRS-80 Model I) for Christmas, and he wanted to learn how games were written. He never could learn anything from a book only, and I have always preferred self taught. So he gave me the books to learn and then I taught him. I've been hooked since, but especially because I found a way to sneak in my art career that was refused to me. :) I got my first computer senior year in highschool after saving up all my science fair winnings and working various jobs, and other money making opportunities as they presented themselves. :rolleyes: Anyhow, I saved half the money by beginning of senior year, and the other half I paid for senior year. That was an Apple II+ computer, which I promptly jumped into 3D graphics, AI, and logic systems, voice and music synthesis later followed. :) I learned Basic, 6502 assembly, Fortran, Pascal, C in that order, after that came an avalanche of computer languages.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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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 9 or 10 I think when I found QBasic... Interesting question for a poll, isn't it? :)
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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 can't remember how old I was. It was on a Dream 6800[^] kit computer my dad got from a bloke at work. After that a Commodore 64, followed by an Amiga and finally PCs. First I programmed in 6800 machine code (without an assembler), then Basic and 6502 machine code and 68000 assembler on the Amiga. Finally, after getting a PC C and C++.
Steve
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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 was 17 almost 18 (1981) when I got my VIC-20. It only came with programs in their manual you had to type in, but within a few weeks I was starting to build trivial programs (had to be with 3.5K of RAM ;) )with BASIC. My first application for retail came out about one year later that added 52 new commands to the BASIC language, mostly for manipulating graphics.
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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:
Wow, you were about what, 4 years old at that time? You are only 29 now right :)
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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
QBasic Gorillas, made the bananas blow up have the screen.
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage