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
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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.
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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)
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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've started on my dad's job when I was four correcting their Fortan syntax on a TI-99 as a game... When I was 6 my family buyed my first CZ Spectrum (The argentinan-renamed version of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum) with a datasette unit for storage (Ohh those old happy days :(( ) When I was 12, I had my firt PC (a 80386 with 4 MB of RAM). My fist real development language was Basic... Later Pascal and C came into my life and the the last one never went away...
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Cool thread idea. I was about 15 ( I can't remember ), and it was an Apple ][. Funny enough, the private school I got kicked out of didn't have a computer lab, the public school that took me in, did. I saw the Apples, and I fell in love. I had money in the bank ( my mum put the money the government gave her for us, in the bank ), and I spent it on an Apple ][ clone, I joined AUSOM ( the local computer club ), and I was hooked. In fact, I often say that I failed most of high school because I spent my time playing on the computer and programming. Which worked out pretty well for me in the end, but I won't advocate it to my kids.... I passed year 11 after being kicked out of home in the last term. I don't think I passed anything else, in all of high school. I did a TAFE VOC course, got an A in computing, A's for maths, and failed the rest. I did a computer operators certificate, but I didn't attend the mid year exams, mostly in disgust.
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