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    Lost User
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    I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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      I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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      I was 14, I think. We started with old-fashioned 'Hello World' programs. ;)

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        I was 14, I think. We started with old-fashioned 'Hello World' programs. ;)

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        What language did you use?

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          I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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          Pete OHanlon
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          N00R wrote:

          When did you start programming?

          Over 30 years ago.

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          And what was your first project?

          It was hardly a project - I just tried to get it to add 2 numbers together.

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            What language did you use?

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            QBasic for the first semester. Then we moved on to Pascal.

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              I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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              Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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              If I remember correctly I was about 15, and the program was an adventure game written in BASIC on an Apple III[^]. Within a few months I'd graduated to assembly language programming* (using a Z80 co-processor board), and the rest is (as they say) history. :) * There's still an assembly language queued print spooler I wrote for CP/M+ out there somewhere in the public domain.

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                I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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                I started programming just 4 years ago (when I was 18), my first day at uni, Hello World in C. Never seen code before, but knew I wanted to do something with computers, I guess it worked out! :-D Been in the job out of uni just over a year now doing mainly C#.

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                  I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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                  I used to mess around with Logo on my dads Amstrad cpw pcw. Big ugly thing with the disc drive mounted on the side of the (black and green) monitor. Was probably around 9-10ish. I then started exploring the OS (it was some variant of CP/M[^]) and messed around with the source code of a few of the games (in Basic I think, but I didn't know that at the time). It was around 11 where I really discovered it though on my schools BBC micro and a 'program your own space adventure games' book. I spent ages copying out the code, for it not to work and having to spend ages checking through the 50 line program for my mistakes. The first game I remember getting working was kind of a text only version of the classic gorillas[^] Later was given an Oric Atmos[^] which I continued with for a while.

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                    I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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                    I started around then. No help from school or anything, i just started doing stuff with GameMaker then went and looked at C++, after which i decied to try C#

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                      I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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                      16 (back in 1977) We had to write down the code on paper. Then the papers were posted to Huddersfield Poly (about 10 miles away) and it was typed in by students. The output was then sent back via the post to us to see what our feeble attempts had produced. Things have moved on a shade since then.

                      I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)

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                        I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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                        whoever voted my previous post, all this is in my bio[^] anyway !

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                          N00R wrote:

                          When did you start programming?

                          Over 30 years ago.

                          N00R wrote:

                          And what was your first project?

                          It was hardly a project - I just tried to get it to add 2 numbers together.

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                          Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                          Over 30 years ago.

                          You must be almost as old as me. I started programming in the mid 1970's. Thinking of retiring yet ????

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                            Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                            Over 30 years ago.

                            You must be almost as old as me. I started programming in the mid 1970's. Thinking of retiring yet ????

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                            How old are you? That if you want to say sure.

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                              I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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                              12 - First program was "Kill Donkey".

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                                I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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                                Age 4 in C64 basic. Later moved to AMOS on the Amiga, Visual Basic and eventually C and C++ when I was around 16 (in the case of Windows, Win32 API and several years later MFC). That was all self-taught then got to do pascal at college which I wasnt that keen on tbh, then java at university which I've also never used since. Now it's mostly .NET with C#. Despite the mostly basic background, I prefer the stricter nature of C# and the less verbose syntax to the modern versions of VB.

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                                  I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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                                  Don't know how old I was, but I started with the simple move the cursor in school program (think this was logo?). What I really remember as my first experiences with programming involved my Commadore 64. Not sure what language that was, but I used to get my monthly copy of Compute magazine. I would read the code article and imagine what it was doing. I would then spend the next couple of days typing in the program, just to get a smiley face with a wink or a number calculator. It was great fun and a real pain if you missed typing characters! Fun!

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                                    I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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                                    That's nothing! When I was a lad, our dad used t' make us prgoramme the Heathrow Flight Control Systems before breakfast - AND we had to do it without turning our computers on![^]

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                                      I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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                                      5 years ago when i was 18 and starting uni. I didnt like coding at first and couldn't get on with it but in my placement year I ended up working for a company using c# asp.net and now here I am, almost 2years experience. Inferior experience to a lot of you I know. :)

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                                        How old are you? That if you want to say sure.

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                                        Born 1953

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                                          I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?

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                                          CPallini
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                                          At age 16. I don't remember my first project, anyway the language was the ZX Spectrum's BASIC. :)

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