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.)"
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
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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.)"
14, 1968, IBM 1620, Fortran-IId
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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 12. The language was BASIC and the system was a good old Honeywell H1642 time sharing system. We had limited storage so we saved our code using paper tape from an ASR-33 teletype. We were also able to use a Honeywell 316 mini-computer by installing the BASIC interpreter. How did we load it? By going to the H316's front panel and entering the "key in loader" instructions in binary using the rocker switches. The interpreter was a large spool of paper tape. Man we thought we were so cool. :-) I graduated to Fortran and assembly after that (anyone remember DAP?)
Allan Dianic Sr. Systems Engineer
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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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I was 12. The language was BASIC and the system was a good old Honeywell H1642 time sharing system. We had limited storage so we saved our code using paper tape from an ASR-33 teletype. We were also able to use a Honeywell 316 mini-computer by installing the BASIC interpreter. How did we load it? By going to the H316's front panel and entering the "key in loader" instructions in binary using the rocker switches. The interpreter was a large spool of paper tape. Man we thought we were so cool. :-) I graduated to Fortran and assembly after that (anyone remember DAP?)
Allan Dianic Sr. Systems Engineer
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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.)"
10. TI-Basic on a TI-99/4A back in 1981. Still miss it. And, as much as I would like to say 'I have been coding since I was 10', I actually took a break from 1984-98 to pursue sound engineering. Worked creating music on a Mac during the 90's and then came back to programming in 1998. Miss the music, too. Memories...
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
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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, in 1969. I was a Grade 11 high school student. Language was FORTRAN IV using the WATFOR compiler, machine was an IBM 360/50 mainframe at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
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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.)"
Do you mean wrote the program down on paper and then created the punch cards? I was about 13 and it was about 1973. It was a Monroe Calculator that was programmable like computers. They had special worksheets that you wrote your program down on. And then hand punched cards to match the worksheet.
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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. My High School had a Teletype terminal with paper tape punch/reader connected via 300 baud modem to a GE Timesharing mainframe and we programed in a dialect of BASIC that required line numbers.
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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.)"
10 years old - Coleco Adam writing code in SmartBasic! :)
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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.)"
8, BASIC on a VIC-20 in 1982.
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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 about 8, after getting a TRS"Trash"-80 for Christmas. Writing in good old Basic. Goto's and all.
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14. Year 1984. Wrote few games like Tic Tac Toe and a Payroll application in ROM Basic. It was on earliest PC that had no hard drive and everything was on a removable 8" floppy.
Similar. I was 7 in 1986. I learned on GW-Basic on a Tandy 1000 (no hard drive, but 5.25-inch diskettes).