How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?
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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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:-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.)"
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!
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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.)"
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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"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.)"
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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62. Seriously. I worked as a reporter, writer and researcher until then.
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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.)"
12 years old programming in Basic on a Radio Shack TRS 80 Color Computer II.
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12 years old programming in Basic on a Radio Shack TRS 80 Color Computer II.
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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.)"
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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:-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.)"
11 if I recall correctly, vb6
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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 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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"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.)"
In '65 I was in a scout explorer group in East Texas. The guys at GE allowed us to use their time share terminal in the evenings. We could each do a short (3 - lines) program and feed the teletype by punch tape. It was so much more fun then fixing TVs that it became my new hobby. Twenty years later it was my career.
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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.)"
12 years old I guess, in 2000. Started with C, and quickly moved to C++. I picked up C# 5 years later because I bought a book called "C# professional", sure it was talking about C++. Best error I've made in my life.
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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.)"
Around 12 years old (31 years ago now!) on a Sinclair ZX-81. Those were the days, when you bought a computer that came with a programming manual! Before that I used to go into Laskys after school (a UK hi-fi/computer store back in the early 80s) and do the classic stuff like this on the various computers they had on display:- 10 PRINT "ANDREW" 20 GOTO 10 I was often asked to leave the store.