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.)"
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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"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.
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10! With this! And i won't ever forget the first days of playing with it!
Behzad
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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 9 when I wrote my first line of code, and it was in BASIC programming language. :java:
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You could hook up a cassette player (remember them?) and save/load it was horrible and noisy :)
Yeah - never had on the ZX81 (it was a school machine - bought by the local authorities - one of two for the whole school) - but had one on the old Vic20 and CBM64 - 20 minutes to load a game and failed as often as not too!
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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 20. In the year '66, when I was student at Liege university. Fortran on IBM 360 first. Later: fortran (IBM 370), edl (IBM Series 1), assembler (PC), and now c/c++ whith PHP, javascript, etc
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Yeah - never had on the ZX81 (it was a school machine - bought by the local authorities - one of two for the whole school) - but had one on the old Vic20 and CBM64 - 20 minutes to load a game and failed as often as not too!
Mmm the good old days, swapping tapes, praying for it to work, kids these days, online gaming mutter...
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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.)"
Probably about 19. We only had mainframes back then. I had to be trained to use an IBM card punch before I was allowed to write my first line of code in Fortran IV. Those, writes he, wiping the beer froth from his mouth and putting the glass down on the table followed by a resounding belch of satifaction, now those were the days of development. Edit: Card punch[^]. Don't waste time looking for a backspace/delete key. ;)
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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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.)"
1986, I was 9. We had an optional course in the 4th grade, programming on a Commodore 64. At the age of 12 I became an C128D which I used to write a paint programm. With 14 I bought my own paint programm at the supermarket published on a disk magazine. That was a great experience. :-)
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62. Seriously. I worked as a reporter, writer and researcher until then.
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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.)"
Just turned 11. First "instructions" involved our Maths class directing our teacher from the door to his desk, using only a "turn right", "turn left", "walk" and "stop" instruction set. He ended up bruised but we (well me at least) learnt some basic concepts of coding. Next lesson we were introduced to Elliot 903 machine code and after some simple paper exercises, a couple of weeks later used a single-hole manual punch (i.e. a square bit of metal you poked through one of 8 holes in a template) to make holes in a punch card. The cards took more than two weeks to return from the University with our punching errors. By the end of the following term we'd multiplied two numbers together. Basic came the following year and the year after that I'd written my first Cobol "compiler" (actually an interpreter) itself written in Basic... (the others were mucking about with StarTrek games; I was writing a Cobol compiler... :wtf: :sigh: why???)
