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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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    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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        :-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".

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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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                                  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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                                    • 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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                                        :-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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                                        KIM DADSWELL
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                                        I was about 14 years old when I started coding in Applesoft Basic. After a few years I graduated to 6502 assembler code. That was when I got hold of an 6502 assembler. Before that it was 'peek' and 'poke' in basic or hand assembling the code and typing in the resulting hex dump!

                                        Kim Senior System Developer

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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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                                          Chris_Green
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                                          10. I still remember making the computer beep with 10 sound statements. Then I discovered the for loop. Awesome!

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