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

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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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    PIEBALDconsult
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    Seventeen. 1983. BASICplus on a PDP-11.

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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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      _AK_
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      19, started with c.

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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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        Mark H2
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        17, last year of high school in applied maths. Fortran prog to alphabetically sort a list of names. Bugger me if it didn't work :omg:

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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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          Manmohan29
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          I was 7 :) It all started with LOGO.

          --------------------------------------------- _" Future Lies in Present "_Manmohan Bishnoi

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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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            Lost User
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            Pravinda-Amarathunge wrote:

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

            13 It was a PC Logo program.

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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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              Daniel Cohen Gindi
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              4.5

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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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                vonb
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                10 or so, was on a home assembled machine (my father did it), much like a C64.. In.. assembler, later started with BASICA on a Commodore PC 10

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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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                  Guy Lavi
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                  I was 8, and it was Basic. Right afterwards I started messing with Assembly. Yes. Weird kid.

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                  • R Ron Beyer

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

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                    ExcellentOrg
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                    14. Year 1984. Wrote few games like Tic Tac Toe and a Payroll application in ROM Basic. It was on earliest PC that had no hard drive and everything was on a removable 8" floppy.

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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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                      Sanil Singh Tomar
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                      10-ish started with Logo and GW Basic

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                      • R Ron Beyer

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

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                        fbowmanmalta
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                        11. It was code inspired by the listings in the Commodore 64's User Manual. Great times. It was 1983.

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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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                          Harry Neethling
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                          #38

                          15 turning 16

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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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                            Deveshdevil
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                            16, I used C++ to write tic tac toe games and small menu driven applications...

                            Coding my dreams, compiling my future..

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                            • D DaveAuld

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

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                              fbowmanmalta
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                              Same here.

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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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                                AngloThaiSolutions
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                                11 years old. That was back in 1981, the machine was a Sinclair ZX 81 (massive 0.25kb of memory and no way to save programs - they had to be rekeyed each time).

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                                • M Maximilien

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

                                  I'd rather be phishing!

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                                  Mutinda Boniface
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                                  14. I remember writing pascal programs and running them on a floppy disk

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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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                                    Member 9063556
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                                    I think I was about 15 when I was messing around with Delphi 7. Made a nifty object color changer based off a timer once that same year. Did it for the kicks. The first time I wrote serious coding was about 2011, when I was in college (Pseudocode, SQL and then C#).

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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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                                      Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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                                      10 - C64 - Assembly...

                                      I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).

                                      "It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox

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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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                                        dan sh
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                                        15. Year 2000. C++.

                                        "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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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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                                          Mark_Wallace
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                                          A better question would be: Was anyone's first code not in a variant of BASIC, and is that a contributing factor in everyone thinking that BASIC is kids' stuff?

                                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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