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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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    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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                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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                                    • 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 Lo Nigro
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                                      8 or 9 years old, with Visual Basic (actually VBA in Excel). An uncle taught me about programming and we built a Tamagotchi-like thing together. I'm 23 now :)

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                                      • M Mark_Wallace

                                        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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                                        Guy Lavi
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                                        Well said! That's why i switched to assembly when i got bored of moving asterisks around. I needed to outsmart my friends and move ALL of the characters on the screen. Made a nice wheel of all of them.

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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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                                          NormDroid
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