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

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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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    Tarrquin
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    1968, 17 years old, COBOL on a IBM 360/40 - a REAL computer with flashing lights on the front :-)

    Everything comes to him that waits. Come on, Camelot, I'm waiting...

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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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      Sujendra shrestha
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      2006 A.D 14 yrs old when I wrote my first hello world program in Qbasic...... :)

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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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        CARNESECCHILuc
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        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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        • 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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          Luca Zenari
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          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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          • S SinKien

            7 or 8, BASIC on C-128

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            Dannoman1234
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            7, on a Timex Sinclair 1000, BASIC language.

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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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              bdtcomp
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              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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              • 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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                Jason_SA
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                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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                • 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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                  rohith naik
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                  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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                  • 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 10114211
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                    About '83 on my first homecomputer Tandy TRS-80 AKA CoCo writing BASIC

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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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                      Robert Viktor
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                      About 14, in the 80s .. Pascal on a machine with the size of two refrigerators running SIEMENS Amboss 3

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                      • S SinKien

                        7 or 8, BASIC on C-128

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                        Tim Magraw
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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!

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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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                          MExpos
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                          5 and a half. I couldn't read, but I memorized the sequence of keys to type in order to load an MSX game from a tape. And that's one line of BASIC code I will never forget:

                          LOAD"CAS:",R

                          At the age of 8 I began learning Basic, and many other programming languages came after.

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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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                            zaxthealien
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                            15, around 2005-2006, if my memory doesn't wrong it was macromedia flash's action script, written for my high school's assignment yes, it was macromedia flash, not adobe yet

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                            • J Jane Hunter

                              62. Seriously. I worked as a reporter, writer and researcher until then.

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                              tpcmurray
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                              Awesome.

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                              • C Captain Price

                                nice commercial !

                                "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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                                Kobie Williams
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                                12 years old programming in Basic on a Radio Shack TRS 80 Color Computer II.

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                                • K Kobie Williams

                                  12 years old programming in Basic on a Radio Shack TRS 80 Color Computer II.

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                                  tpcmurray
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                                  Same computer and same age for me. Gotta love those Trash 80s.

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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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                                    Peter Webb
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                                    It was 1969 and I was 13. The language was called "Minitran" and it was Fortran without format statements. A bent paperclip was used to punch out little rectangles on standard 80 column IBM cards which has been pre-perforated. The turn around time was 1 week (the schoolteacher had to drive to a University, drop it off, and return a few days later to pick up the output). If there was a compile time error, it stopped compiling on the first error, so you just got "illegal statement - line 7" on the printout. That is a very, very slow way to learn to program.

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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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                                      NAANsoft
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                                      I was 13 years old, back in 1973 (BASIC). However, I was 15 years before I actually could run my code - I didn't have access to any computer or even programable calculator before 1975. - But I miss those days... / Normann Aa. Nielsen

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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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                                        jpcmonteiro
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                                        11 if I recall correctly, vb6

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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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                                          Maneesh Raina
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                                          I think about 12 or 13. started with writing codes in basic on a BBC Micro with 64KB internal memory. still writing codes now but for most of latest computers/servers/devices on planet earth, connected to each other. :)

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