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

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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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      "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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          :-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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                              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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                                  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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                                      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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                                        :-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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                                        • 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 Vlasceanu
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                                          9 - 10 years old, and my first line of code was a BASIC 'CIRCLE' command on an ICE Felix HC 91. Good memories :thumbsup:

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