How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?
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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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"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 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?
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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.)"
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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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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11. It was code inspired by the listings in the Commodore 64's User Manual. Great times. It was 1983.
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14. year 2007. C Programming Language. X|
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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"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.)"
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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:-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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:-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.)"
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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"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.)"
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!
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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.)"
10. I still remember making the computer beep with 10 sound statements. Then I discovered the for loop. Awesome!
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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.)"
I was 18yo. I coded some ActionScript for the web site of a friend's father.
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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).
You could hook up a cassette player (remember them?) and save/load it was horrible and noisy :)
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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.)"
7-8 on a VIC 20 (and black and white TV). That would have been around 1994.
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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.)"
Messing around on a Commodore 16 (BASIC) following the manual hunting for symbols, odd thing most people here appear to have tried some form of Commodore Basic, which was I believe a Microsoft product!
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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.)"
Fourteen, I guess. It would have been 1979 or '80 in boarding school, and it would have been BASIC on a TRS-80 hooked up to a Philips cassette player and an old Pye B&W TV set. The program would probably have been along the lines of: 10 PRINT "FATHER GALLOGLY IS A BOLLOCKS." 20 GOTO 10
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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.)"
I gess I was 15. BASIC and Apple IIc. Good times!
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11. It was code inspired by the listings in the Commodore 64's User Manual. Great times. It was 1983.
About 1976 at a pre-college introduction to electronics at Portsmouth University (then Polytechnic). I was 16 and we programmed a large computer that was kept in its own air-conditions room using BASIC. The code was loaded using punched tape. There was a medium sized box sitting on the table, that we were told was their new computer that had the same power as the room sized one did. (The room sized one was based on discrete transisters with wire-wrap connections).
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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.)"
It depends what you call a line of code. When I was 5 or 6, my dad brought home a Burroughs dumb terminal without any sort of storage at all. Later we got a tape drive so we could save stuff, truly something to make you remember stiffy drives with something like fondness. My older brother was the true driver of the process, but we had a couple of dot-matrix printouts of program listings, entirely ones & zeros, pages of the stuff, and if you typed them in without any errors, you got space invaders, pacman, or the like. If you made a mistake later in the listing, you might still be able to recover and fix the mistake, but an early typo was instant death. So, my brother and I would enter this lot over a couple of hours, he would use some arcane trick to make it run, then the terminal was left on for a couple of days or weeks until we lost interest. Then I went on to study chemistry, and only came back to programming in my mid-20's. COBOL, to show my age. Although really when I started COBOL, people had been calling it a dead language for decades.