How old did you start programming?
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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. :)
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GW-BASIC? 10 cls 20... 30 goto 10 I remember a black screen and we used of goto :)
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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 :-)
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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
hobbywise back in the seventies, 8080, z80, 6800, 6502... and my alltime favorite, the 2650 (anybody know what that was?) and all programming done in assembler. hog heaven if you ask me! and great fun too... squeezing all desired functionality in as few bytes as possible... save a byte, get a sixpack (remember?) professionally, macro-11 and fortran on pdp-11s under rt-11sj/fb/xm and rsx-11s/m. after that the pc and the subsequent demise of a great art/craft. remember this one? - Real programmers don't write specs -- Users should consider themselves lucky to get any programs at all and take what they get. - Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read. - Real programmers don't write application programs, they program right down on the bare metal. Application programming is for feebs who can't do systems programming. - Real programmers don't eat quiche. They eat twinkies, and szechevan food. - Real programmers programs never work right the first time. But if you throw them on the machine they can be patched into working in only a few 30-hours debugging sessions. - Real programmers don't write in Fortran. Fortran is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. Read the full article here: http://www.travelnotes.de/california/silicon/realprog.htm
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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
About 12/13 with Sinclair BASIC on a Sinclair ZX81. I then progressed to a Sinclair ZX Spectrum (which helped me get my first computing qualification - Computer Studies O level), where I learnt (deep breath) Z80 assembly, C and Pascal (and did the only hacking of my life :-O).
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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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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
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
currently learning Haskell
Persevere - it's a very cool language. It's currently my language of choice for small problems/prototypes. I prototyped a colleagues work in Haskell - I ended up with about 40 lines of code for the core processing work and another 80 for a parser (using Parsec[^]) to read in the input files. I don't like to think how much C++ it would have taken, even using Boost to help...
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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
10 years old, I suppose. The school I was at got a couple of ZX81s donated by Sir Clive himself (not that he was a "Sir" then) and set them up in what felt like a converted bike shed. A few months later, I got my grandfather's cast-off ZX80, and bought my own ZX81 shortly after.
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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
Got my first VIC 20 when I was 10 (I think)... BASIC then. Then I upped to an XT after about 2 years and used QBASIC (Same difference) and then got my Pentium 1 a while later...
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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