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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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    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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                  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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                      #40

                      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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                                  • 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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                                    berrymaria
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                                    14. year 2007. C Programming Language. X|

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                                    • 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:

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                                      Mark_Wallace
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                                      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!

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                                      • F fbowmanmalta

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

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                                        SinKien
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                                        7 or 8, BASIC on C-128

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                                        • B berrymaria

                                          14. year 2007. C Programming Language. X|

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                                          Mark_Wallace
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                                          Don't knock C. If you learn it well, you can piss all over Java experts -- in Java. Once you understand what's happening with memory, the language/syntax is the easy bit.

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

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