Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Code Project
  1. Home
  2. The Lounge
  3. How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

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

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved The Lounge
question
206 Posts 185 Posters 0 Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • 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.)"

    M Offline
    M Offline
    Manmohan29
    wrote on last edited by
    #30

    I was 7 :) It all started with LOGO.

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

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • 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.)"

      L Offline
      L Offline
      Lost User
      wrote on last edited by
      #31

      Pravinda-Amarathunge wrote:

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

      13 It was a PC Logo program.

      1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • 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.)"

        D Offline
        D Offline
        Daniel Cohen Gindi
        wrote on last edited by
        #32

        4.5

        ----- Daniel Cohen Gindi danielgindi (at) gmail dot com

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • 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.)"

          V Offline
          V Offline
          vonb
          wrote on last edited by
          #33

          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

          The signature is in building process.. Please wait...

          1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • 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.)"

            G Offline
            G Offline
            Guy Lavi
            wrote on last edited by
            #34

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

            1 Reply Last reply
            0
            • R Ron Beyer

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

              E Offline
              E Offline
              ExcellentOrg
              wrote on last edited by
              #35

              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.

              U 1 Reply Last reply
              0
              • 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.)"

                S Offline
                S Offline
                Sanil Singh Tomar
                wrote on last edited by
                #36

                10-ish started with Logo and GW Basic

                1 Reply Last reply
                0
                • R Ron Beyer

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

                  F Offline
                  F Offline
                  fbowmanmalta
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #37

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

                  S J S J 4 Replies Last reply
                  0
                  • 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.)"

                    H Offline
                    H Offline
                    Harry Neethling
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #38

                    15 turning 16

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    0
                    • 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.)"

                      D Offline
                      D Offline
                      Deveshdevil
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #39

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

                      Coding my dreams, compiling my future..

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      • D DaveAuld

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

                        Dave Find Me On: Web|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn


                        Folding Stats: Team CodeProject

                        F Offline
                        F Offline
                        fbowmanmalta
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #40

                        Same here.

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        0
                        • 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.)"

                          A Offline
                          A Offline
                          AngloThaiSolutions
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #41

                          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).

                          G 1 Reply Last reply
                          0
                          • M Maximilien

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

                            I'd rather be phishing!

                            M Offline
                            M Offline
                            Mutinda Boniface
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #42

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

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            0
                            • 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.)"

                              M Offline
                              M Offline
                              Member 9063556
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #43

                              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#).

                              1 Reply Last reply
                              0
                              • 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.)"

                                Kornfeld Eliyahu PeterK Offline
                                Kornfeld Eliyahu PeterK Offline
                                Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #44

                                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

                                1 Reply Last reply
                                0
                                • 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.)"

                                  D Offline
                                  D Offline
                                  dan sh
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #45

                                  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[^]

                                  1 Reply Last reply
                                  0
                                  • 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.)"

                                    M Offline
                                    M Offline
                                    Mark_Wallace
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #46

                                    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!

                                    1 Reply Last reply
                                    0
                                    • 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.)"

                                      B Offline
                                      B Offline
                                      berrymaria
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #47

                                      14. year 2007. C Programming Language. X|

                                      M 1 Reply Last reply
                                      0
                                      • M Mark H2

                                        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:

                                        If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

                                        M Offline
                                        M Offline
                                        Mark_Wallace
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #48

                                        Mark H2 wrote:

                                        Bugger me if it didn't work

                                        For Leftpondians, who never seem to understand clauses with that structure, that means "it worked, and I was surprised".

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

                                        1 Reply Last reply
                                        0
                                        • F fbowmanmalta

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

                                          S Offline
                                          S Offline
                                          SinKien
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #49

                                          7 or 8, BASIC on C-128

                                          D T 2 Replies Last reply
                                          0
                                          Reply
                                          • Reply as topic
                                          Log in to reply
                                          • Oldest to Newest
                                          • Newest to Oldest
                                          • Most Votes


                                          • Login

                                          • Don't have an account? Register

                                          • Login or register to search.
                                          • First post
                                            Last post
                                          0
                                          • Categories
                                          • Recent
                                          • Tags
                                          • Popular
                                          • World
                                          • Users
                                          • Groups