I started programming at age 13
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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?
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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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.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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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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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?
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?
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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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?
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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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?
At age
16. I don't remember my first project, anyway the language was theZX Spectrum'sBASIC. :)If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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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?
21 and I discovered that a string could be something entirely different than women's underwear... going down hill since then... :-D
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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.
Crikey, my newborn is going to have to work hard to beat your age 4 starting date ;) So far she is more interested in spitting milk onto the keyboard than programming it.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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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 know which machine you mean - I had one while I was at Uni (mine was the turbocharged version with 1MB of RAM!). :-\ It was CP/M+, BTW. Fun system to learn on, aside from the mono monitor.
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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?
I started coding when I was at the university. My first real project was a Montne Carlo simulation written in Fortran. Prior to that I was just working on cheesy academic projects and games written in C/C++.
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Ohhhh! You had breakfast, you lucky thing you. We had to get up before we went to sleep, eat roadkill for lunch, set our selves on fire to guide the planes into Heathrow before climbing into the jet engines to clean them with our tongues! You had luxury you did!
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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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?
I still haven't started programming and I'm 28...
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Crikey, my newborn is going to have to work hard to beat your age 4 starting date ;) So far she is more interested in spitting milk onto the keyboard than programming it.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
Unfortunately my child (age of 2 and half) is more interested in driving our car. :sigh: :)
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
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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 ????
Richard A. Abbott wrote:
Thinking of retiring yet ????
There are a few years left in the old dog yet.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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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?
I was 9 years old. I notice that too many people start when they leave school these days. That's sad.
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