How old did you start programming?
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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
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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?
I started programming back in 1992, when I was 9 years old. I started with QBasic at that time
Ernest Laurentin wrote:
maybe had your first computer?
Well, it was my father's -still was able to play games on it though.:-D So it's still kind like mine too-. I used it more than him most of the time. It was Acer 8-12MgHz, 2Mb RAM, 40Mb HDD.
Regards:rose:
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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 started programming when i was in 8th grade (it was around 94 i guess) in GWBASIC. The machines in my school were IBM-PCs with 128kb ram and those big floppy drives. never had any hard drives. Used to boot into DOS3.2
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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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Choo Man Foo (a C-64/128 Pac-Man clone)... anyone ever played that?
Nope.
Jasmine2501 wrote:
just print the source code in a book and you'd buy it and type it in yourself.
Yeah, I had an utility I wrote published with an article in Compute! or the Gazette. It was a little asm program to capture the screen and convert it into a BASIC program. Trival but handy at the time ;)
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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 13 on a 286 with Basic and then Turbo Pascal. I turned the moon green with TB, ah the memories.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
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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
Coooooool thread :) 1. Started coding at 15. 2. Commodore +4, Commodore 64, and Commodore 128. 3. Basic, GWBasic, QBasic, Pascal, C, C++, etc ... 4. My first PC was an Intel 386/33MHz/1MB RAM (4 x 256) with a co-processor (added 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
I was a freshman in college. My high school didn't have classes like that -- too expensive. I took a class in FORTRAN in school...yes, punch cards on a CDC6400 (sort of a junior super computer....) I enjoyed it so much, but hated cards, that I became the fella who sits at the desk outside the computer center and helps others with their programs (the "insultant"). My favorite question: "I didn't change anything, but my program doesn't work anymore..." Answer: "If you didn't change anything, why did you run it again?" The closest we had to a PC back then was a PDP-8 minicomputer. Jim (college class of 1976)