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
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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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 my parents got me a 16K Radio Shack color computer and a few books on basic. I had to beg them for the tape recorder so I could save programs.
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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
Was about 16-17 (Jr in HS)in '73-'74. We had a teletype terminal, you had to dial the school district office, then put the phone in the 'ear cups' on the side of the terminal. We were programming in BASIC (computing orbits for Physics!). Things weren't much improved 2-3yrs later in college. I went to a commuter school, and folks 'gave me the phone lines' after 9pm to dial back to school for my Fortran homework (on my TRS-80 M:I w, Cat Novation modem! 300bps). Can you whistle at 300bps? ;-)
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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
4th Grade (9 yoa). TI 99/4a w/ "Audio" Tape Drive (Christmas Present). BASIC. (as if there was a choice for it.) :-D
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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
First saw a personal computer in a Radio Shack store somewhere around 1978-79. First got to use a computer when I started high school in 1981 -- Commodore PET. I was 13 that year. :laugh: First owned a VIC-20 around 1982. 3KB of RAM, cassette tape mass storage, and I was really living! I learned BASIC on this machine and the PETs at school. We had old teletype machines at school we used for printers. Noisy! First owned a Commodore 64 in ~1984. I remember paying $200 for it, using money I earned painting a basement. My parents gave me the 1541 Floppy drive for Christmas. (The VIC and the C-64 are still boxed up in the original boxes in my basement!) Learned Pascal (KMMM) and 650x assembly on this machine. Believe it or not, I didn't actually get a PC-compatible machine (a used 386) until 1994 or so. I had been working as a sysadmin for several years at that point and couldn't afford a new machine. In between the C-64 and my 386, I had an Amiga 1000, which I used all through college. What a ride it's been! :)
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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 around 4 or 5 when I started poking with my dad's old C-64. Thought it was the coolest thing ever to "give" my sister a screen that repeated "Happy birthday" over and over until I hit the break button. I went to QBasic in my teens and HTML in high school. I didn't ever really get back into coding (other than the very occasional JavaScript) until college, though.
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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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cool! Same for me. BASIC got me hooked first.
I was 13 years old when I got a MSX 8 bit computer for Christmas (64kb of RAM with a cassette tape player, all hooked up to a TV - these were very popular in Brazil at the time)). I also got an Apple IIe programming book (there were no books out for MSX yet :-)) and that's how it all started...
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I started about 13 I guess - first using BBC Basic at school and then on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. :)
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The Rob BlogRob Caldecott wrote:
I started about 13 I guess - first using BBC Basic at school and then on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
I started with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, now that i think time is passing really quickly... oh no! I'm getting old! Started at age of 10 but didn't learn much at that time :P but it was enough for me to nag my mom for a full year for her to give me a computer xD
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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 relatively old by comparison, maybe 26. My first computer was an Altair 8800 that I assembled from a kit. I mostly did assembly language because basic or any other language I had available for it was unable to do graphics very well. Eventually I moved on to the C-128 where I did assembly language programming for the CP/M side. Lilith
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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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cool! Same for me. BASIC got me hooked first.
Ernest Laurentin wrote:
cool! Same for me. BASIC got me hooked first.
You mean there are OTHER languages to program in? :-D
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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
How about FORTRAN IV on an IBM 360/85 then DEC 11/45 and 11/70's (networked!). Then on to PC's with HP 9845B with no drives - only cassette port, the IBM PC with 2 floppy drives and no HDD, the IBM PC/XT (using AboveBoard for the extra 128k then extra 360 to get up to 1Mb of RAM). In the early 80's programming in DBase II, R:Base 4000 and Supercalc, Visicalc, Lotus 1a, Symphony, Quattro Pro. Documented with WordStar, DisplayWrite, MultiMate and early WordPerfect. Finally on to Turbo C, Turbo Assembler Turbo Pascal (I miss Borland). Here we are with Office 2007, DOT.net and some tremendous tools - I've really enjoyed the ride so far. Life is really good. I wonder just where we'll be in the next 25 years:cool:
Tom Hamilton/Intel Folsom
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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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Yup, I started with the original 4.77 MHz IBM PC. No hard disk, just 5-inch floppies. First programming language: Basic. When we got a modem, it was a whopping 300 bps. (We bypassed the 110 bps acoustic couplers.) The comm software was written in basic. And FIDONET was probably more widely used than the Internet.