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.)"
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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).
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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.)"
5/6 years old, on Basic on a Sinclair's Z80 Clone
I'm on a Fuzzy State: Between 0 an 1
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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.)"
9 years old in 1971 - my Dad was taking a course and showed me how to fill out "bubble cards" (computer cards that you filled in circles in pencil rather than punched them out) in Fortran: program add print *, "7 + 5", 7 + 5 end
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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.)"
1971, eleven - timesharing basic on a PDP-8, and some weird s**t assembler for an old phillips bunny hopper machine that had been donated to my school in pieces - we rebuilt the sucker, learned to bootstrap it by trial and error, and wrote lots of adventure/star trek type games. Ah! real programming with grease under the fingernails! and yes, at first, smoke tests really were. you young turks really have it easy these days :laugh: .
Nothing is impossible, we just don't know the way of it yet.
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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 years old, in high school, using an ASR33 Teletype connected at an amazing 110 baud to a Univac 1106 (with FASTRAND drum instead of disk, that oughta date it). Language was something new called Dartmouth BASIC. Second semester we moved to FORTRAN and punched cards, third semester was ALGOL. The Univac was given to the school district as surplus from the early Apollo work by a local NASA contractor. Then I would go home at night and do my Calculus homework on stone tablet using a flint chisel...... Jack Peacock
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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 became a software engineer a little later than most of you, probably. I started out as a hardware technician back in the '70s after a 6 year stint in the Army but had a serious interest in the software side of things. Especially since I could see that I wouldn't be "fixing" computers too much longer as everything started to become more modularized. All I was was a highly trained "board swapper" at the end. So, in 1980 I made the big jump to becoming a programmer. My first job was as a hardware diagnostics developer. A natural beginning for someone who was hardware-centric for over a decade. I gradually moved to being a firmware developer (another natural progression) until the late '90s when I made the jump to more business-related programming, which I am still doing today. Along the way I migrated from assembler to Clipper for dBase to C to HTML to Classic ASP to VB6 to .NET VB and C#. So I'm basically a jack of all trades (and master of most!!) And with the data side of things, from dBase II to Microsoft Access to SQL Server and Oracle.
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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.)"
on Atari Basic, with 5.25" floppy disk, Atari 2600 console. using the "Atari User Manual", howww...along time ago!, I was like 11.great days!!!!! :-D :) :laugh: :cool::cool: