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 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.
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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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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.
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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
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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
I was 12 or 13 as well. BASIC was the language. The "computer" was a teletype (all paper output) connected via modem to the U of M. Later that year the school got a terminal with a SCREEN! It was all the rage. The first REAL programming I was 18 or so...assembly language on the Timex Sinclair (Z80 Yeah!) Had that thing ripped open and memory extended in no time heh! First PC from Northgate (mail-order) 286 12MHZ 40MB hardrive 1MB RAM! A smoker!
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:laugh: Youngster ;P
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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...
That's awesome! I programmed on paper reading books and magazines for a couple years until I could afford my first PC :)
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I changed careers. Didn't properly start programming until my 30s. Though I did do some engineering programming in my 20s.
Kevin
If you consider learning how to execute commands on a commodore 64 (basic), programming then I suppose I started when I was like 8 :) But on a more serious note, I had started c++ when I was about 18 and today I write C#.