How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?
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12 years old programming in Basic on a Radio Shack TRS 80 Color Computer II.
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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 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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"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.)"
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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"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.)"
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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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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"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 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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"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.)"
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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"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.)"
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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"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.)"
16 in 1973; FORTRAN IV on punch cards, in a high-school-level class taught at the community college. Finding prime numbers, finding the zeros of polynomials, computing the minimum number of coins to equal some number of cents -- as hundredths of a dollar $0.01 -- and learning about the imperfection of REAL numbers: SHOCKING! My typing skills were non-existent, and it took me a looong time to plonk out a 30-card stack, after having already composed everything on a coding sheet. No backspace key on a key punch.
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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.)"
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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.)"
22. But that was 43 years ago. I'd never seen a computer before I was 21.
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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 (1976) and using a HP25 (programmable calculator: HP25).
Dirk Verheijke
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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 1979, at a Radio Shack store. It was 10 print "hello"; 20 goto 10 I was 11. My dad had been to a BASIC programming class for work, and he showed me what to do. --Geoff