How old did you start programming?
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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#.
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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
Ahhh, the good old days. 1982 in 10th grade on a trash 80 (Radio Shack TRS-80). You would type a BASIC program in, then save it out to a thermal printer (gray colored wax paper about the size of cash register receipt), and the next time you wanted to run the program you typed it in again. Lucky students grabbed the few trash 80s with cassette recorders. You would press record, tell the program to store, wait for the sounds and tones to end, then hit stop. Unfortunately, it was necessary to record programs 2 or 3 times in a row to make sure the next time you came back, that you had a good copy. And even then it was not certain. In the years after, I drooled over the Atari-ST... and finally purchased an Atari 520ST about 1987. I was only interested in learning how to become a "professional" programmer, so I struggled to come up with the funds to pay for "Megamax Laser C" and then struggled to understand it... the first C compiler I ever used. I still have my code from back then (transferred off Atari ST disks long ago and can run through an emulator now). Looking at it now, it is funny how simplistic the code was and how much trouble I had trying to figure it all out back then. ;)
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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
Ernest Laurentin wrote:
how old were you when you start programming?
Unofficially I was about 14 IIRC. Shortly after that (age 15) it become official when I get me some proper schooling. :)
Ernest Laurentin wrote:
maybe had your first computer?
My first computer was a hand-me-down Tandy computer running DOS 2.1. That's the machine I learned about computers (hardware, using software, etc.) the most with. Later on however I was using a Win 3.1 machine to dive into my programming career. And my first programming language was QBasic with a side of GW-Basic.
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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
11 Years - Just used to play games. Moonbugs, startrooper, carmen sandiego(actually in a later stage) 12 years I guess - GW Basic. LOGO programming (that was in school) Computer was a PC AT, 2 FDD, no HDD, green color monitor
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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 brush with programming was at the age of 8. It was GW-BASIC and I loved it. My first computer... ummmm let me think... I think it was when I was about 13 that I got my first computer, an IBM PC(forgot the speed) with 2 5'25" floppy drives, 640KB RAM and no hard drive. I upgraded to a 20Meg Hard drive when I was 15. :)
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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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Captain See Sharp512Mb RAM
Do you mean 512KB? Back in the day, 640 K was the high end and Hard disks only went to about 20 Meg. That's a step up from the frist IBM-PCs. 1.44 MHz, 5 expansion slots. 10 Meg hard drive, no gui.
Joe Q wrote:
That's a step up from the frist IBM-PCs. 1.44 MHz,
Actually the first IBM PC had a 4.77 MHz CPU, 64K RAM and no hard disk. This was followed by the XT which came with a 10Mb hard disk, and then the AT (6MHz CPU, max 20Mb hard disk). And we all know what happened after that... :) /ravi
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My first brush with programming was at the age of 8. It was GW-BASIC and I loved it. My first computer... ummmm let me think... I think it was when I was about 13 that I got my first computer, an IBM PC(forgot the speed) with 2 5'25" floppy drives, 640KB RAM and no hard drive. I upgraded to a 20Meg Hard drive when I was 15. :)
--- :beer: Hakuna-Matada :beer: It means no worries for the rest of your days... It's our problem free, Philosophy :jig: "I think my response was 'What idiot dreamed this up?'" -- Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle's chief security officer, in typical blunt manner, remembering her reaction to the company's scheme to brand its databases as "unbreakable."
GW-BASIC? 10 cls 20... 30 goto 10 I remember a black screen and we used of goto :)
WhiteSky
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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
somewhere around 1 grade, I was about 7, we learned logos at my school computer class (that turtle that you could command with a basic like language), I stayed there until 3 grade, 4 and 5 I was on another school where the computer class was logos.. after that I only got to program in college at the time I didn't realized that I was programming, but I liked, it sure helped me to learn C at the university :)
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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 already enrolled in a bachelor management business school when I started creating static web content (HTML and JavaScript) and I was 18 years old in these days. In that moment I was not happy at all with the career I had chosen, it was not exciting for me so I quit and enrolled a Computer Science bachelor... my life was brighting again! My first serious general purpose programming language was plain C... and I was 20 years old back then, maybe a bit late to start programming but now I'm really enjoying what I do. My first computer had a Cyrix x586 processor and this was an assembled machine with not brand. Best Regards!
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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
11yrs: started with a VIC-20 and Apple II, learning BASIC and 6502 assembly. Got a Commodore 128 a few years later, and had learned Pascal and C in that time period. A friend of mine had a TRaSh-80, but we never could do much with it. But I don't just feel young... I am :)
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somewhere around 1 grade, I was about 7, we learned logos at my school computer class (that turtle that you could command with a basic like language), I stayed there until 3 grade, 4 and 5 I was on another school where the computer class was logos.. after that I only got to program in college at the time I didn't realized that I was programming, but I liked, it sure helped me to learn C at the university :)
LOGO had some super-cool features besides turtle graphics. I learned recursion in LOGO, and I remember working through some sample code to implement "Eliza" in LOGO... very cool stuff.
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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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Hehe... I remember when software was distributed that way. They'd just print the source code in a book and you'd buy it and type it in yourself. The great thing about that was that you could hack it and make it better. I had a great hack for Blue Meanies from Outer Space (which was distributed on tape, but had bugs), and I ported World Power from Apple to VIC-20 that way, by printing the code and typing it in, doing the translations along the way. I'm the original author of Choo Man Foo (a C-64/128 Pac-Man clone)... anyone ever played that? I've always wondered if it made it outside of my home town.
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Peek and poke times were good times indeed! :-D I have lost the green text on black background feeling! VC++ change my heart!
Ernest Laurentin wrote:
I have lost the green text on black background feeling!
I haven't... look at my web site :)
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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 10 when i first started writing actual planned (albeit not very well) personal software projects. I read Beginning C++ by Ivor Horton: it was a fantastic book that taught me much about various OOP concepts. Before I read that book the limit of my programming talent was QBasic. Sadly, people didn't seem very interested in my talents back then; I never have had any other friends in real life that are programmers like me. Thankfully I am in college now so I have a whole Computer Science department behind me! (and CodeProject yay ^_^)
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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
Ernest Laurentin wrote:
- I started programming when I was 12yrs (w/ VIC-20 and commodore 64)(I still feel young though!)
BASIC on the C-64 at the age of 11 (may have been 10, I can't really remember), then moved on to Assembler on the same machine. It was my father who got me interested in programming, I think he realized what was about to happen in the computer industry even though he himself has never worked in that area. Today, having a job that I really, really like as a systems programmer, I am eternally grateful to him for talking me into trying to do something other than just playing Pitstop II on that C-64 :-)