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 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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:-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.)"
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???)
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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.)"
2006 A.D 14 yrs old when I wrote my first hello world program in Qbasic...... :)
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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.)"
First time was in October 1973, I was 21 at computer engineer school, language APL on a teletype with punched tape computer : IRIS 80 under system SIRIS 7, and it was the Fibonacci suite... And last time I wrote a line of code was this morning, 40 years later, take or leave 2 weeks, it was VB on a PC, and it was modelization of a Robot in 3D.
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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.)"
9 or 10 (circa 1992), if you consider Logo as a valid "first line of code". Otherwise, I was 11 when I wrote my first line of QBasic.
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7, on a Timex Sinclair 1000, BASIC language.
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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 18 when I first programmed, a freshman at college. It was Fortran. I couldn't understand subroutines at the time. It just seemed foreign to me and I think it was the way it was taught. I didn't like computers at the time, and I could only type up punch cards. I loved the computer building with it's glass surrounded by the giant computer.
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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. (1983) Saved for 6 months (I was paid for washing my dad's car, mowing the lawn, weeding, etc.) and bought a Commodore 64. Spent afternoons after school with a friend listening to Prince and Michael Jackson's Thriller while coding ROM BASIC with the c64 plugged into his television set. We both learnt the hard way to first SAVE to the tape drive before running any new code! I cannot remember how many hours of code we lost because of system crashes. LOL
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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.)"
When I was 15 and entered 11th grade around 2006 . It was around then that i got interested into coding. starting coding at 15 was relatively quite early in India where most people do not have a computer at home even now. Luckily for me my school helped me tremendously.
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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.)"
About '83 on my first homecomputer Tandy TRS-80 AKA CoCo writing BASIC
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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.)"
About 14, in the 80s .. Pascal on a machine with the size of two refrigerators running SIEMENS Amboss 3
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18 in 1979 on a Nova Mainframe with a teletype machine as a terminal. It could only handle 8 words a minute typing speed and as the mainframe crashed so often, we used to type straight onto punched tape as a backup. Also basic but this version line numbers were required. God I'm old!
