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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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    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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                        • 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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                          stevev6
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                          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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                          • 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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                            Nicolas Dorier
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                            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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                            • 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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                              G Tek
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                              Grade 3 - TI-99 4/A

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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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                                AndyStephens
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                                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.

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                                • R Ron Beyer

                                  12 or so, spent a lot of time doing weird things with QBasic and TrueBasic.

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                                  Member 9716709
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                                  20, in 1955. I wrote a Fortran program on an IBM650 (about the size of a refrigerator) analyzing elevator dynamics. took three passes on punched card decks which got progressively larger, ultimately printing out on a line printer.

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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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                                    acomputerdog
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                                    I was somewhere between 6 and 8 when I wrote my first line of BASIC. To be fair it was really my dad telling me what to type, but it wasn't long before I didn't need any help.

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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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                                      peteB37
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                                      Prior to conception, I was a Bi-located, dual conciousness entity, known as Gametes. I wrote code by telekinetically moving slabs of stone on Salisbury plain. The program is still running. Sorry, but I could see this getting silly and competive, so I thought I'd go for the prize for most outlandish claim.

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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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                                        grralph1
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                                        I have punched cards, sys ops and project managers and feel like that I have been doing this since the beginning of time.

                                        "Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980

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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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                                          Architect Of Life
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                                          I was 13 years old and it was on a Commodore PET 3032 enhanced Basic 4.0... I miss those days.

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