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How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

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    Captain Price
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    :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

    "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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      :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

      "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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      Ron Beyer
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      12 or so, spent a lot of time doing weird things with QBasic and TrueBasic.

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        :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

        "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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        Maximilien
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        10-ish. a Basic and/or Logo line of code.

        I'd rather be phishing!

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          12 or so, spent a lot of time doing weird things with QBasic and TrueBasic.

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          Captain Price
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          Basic, basic, basic I tried VB fist. It was awesome coz it worked. :| :rolleyes:

          "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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            :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

            "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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            Mike Hankey
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            I was 8 and it was a simpler time (1957) and I was a member of the Secret squadron, here's[^] the details.

            VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. -Steven Wright

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            • C Captain Price

              :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

              "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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              Pete OHanlon
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              Why does your message only consist of emoticons?

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                Why does your message only consist of emoticons?

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                Captain Price
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                :laugh: Haha... Good Point.

                "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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                  I was 8 and it was a simpler time (1957) and I was a member of the Secret squadron, here's[^] the details.

                  VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. -Steven Wright

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                  Captain Price
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                  nice commercial !

                  "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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                  • C Captain Price

                    :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                    "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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                    Casey Sheridan
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                    Somewhere around the age of 9 or 10, I started with HTML and a little JavaScript. Then, in late 2011, I got into VB.NET

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                    • C Captain Price

                      :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                      "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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                      Dalek Dave
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                      I was 11 and it was 1978

                      --------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

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                        :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                        "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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                        DaveAuld
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                        ~10 to 12, Commodore 64. Nothing fancy, just very BASIC stuff...

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                          Basic, basic, basic I tried VB fist. It was awesome coz it worked. :| :rolleyes:

                          "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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                          Manfred Rudolf Bihy
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                          Pravinda-Amarathunge wrote:

                          I tried VB fist

                          Sounds weird and is most likely better a suitable subject for the Soapbox. ;P Cheers!

                          "I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"

                          Ron White, Comedian

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                            :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                            "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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                            Joan M
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                            10 years old, started with GWBASIC, then a Little bit of DBASEIV (11 years old) and a while after that I started with C (11..12 years old) and of course C++ (13 years old)... Now I'm in robotics and automation in general therefore I'm using Visual C++, HTML, PHP and specific languages to program machines (CNC, PLC and robots). :thumbsup:

                            [www.tamautomation.com] | Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing. [YouTube channel]

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                              :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                              "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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                              BillWoodruff
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                              If you "count" using 4GL to manipulate SPSS, thirty-eight.

                              Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview

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                                :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                                "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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                                Forogar
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                                I had just turned 16, it was the 31st of May, 1975 when I wrote my first program (in assembler) and sent it off over the teletype to the mainframe at Manchester University - the following day I got the results back - it worked! The answer was 4.

                                - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                                  :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                                  "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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                                  Member 4194593
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                                  I was 26, just out of the Air Force in 1965, working as a tech in manufacturing for GE, I coded on a coding pad in actual machine language, key punched the program in a Hollerith card (multi-punched 12 bits per column, three columns per instruction word - 36 bit words, 4 9 bit bytes per word - on an IBM 029 card punch), then booted the card into the GE 600 system in single step mode, and stepped through the program to verify a failing loop, then ran the program in loop mode and started scoping the wiring. Dave.

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                                    :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                                    "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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                                    Marco Bertschi
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                                    16, at the start of my apprenticeship.

                                    You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."

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                                      :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                                      "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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                                      Ravi Bhavnani
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                                      21.  Pascal. /ravi

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                                        ~10 to 12, Commodore 64. Nothing fancy, just very BASIC stuff...

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                                        Lost User
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                                        Me too, although a year or two younger than you were I think.

                                        “I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks

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                                          :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                                          "If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

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                                          Marc Clifton
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                                          In the womb, if you consider DNA as code. ;) If you mean computer code, about 12, on a PDP/11. Marc

                                          Unit Testing Succinctly

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