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.)"
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:
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12 in QuickBASIC 14 Turbo c++
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You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him. :Smile:
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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 15 when I wrote my first programs on a ZX-Spectrum 48K. Using that one-key command language it featured.
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10-ish. a Basic and/or Logo line of code.
I'd rather be phishing!
:thumbsup: for Logo, it was my first programming language when I was somewhere around 7-8 years old, I still have a book on it, (although I don't have a 5 1/2 disk reader to load the interpreter anymore... :( )
CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...
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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.)"
17. Fortran on punch cards submitted to an IBM 360/50 in 1974. That's all it took and I was hooked for 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.)"
First "line" of code - 1975 - using Microsoft basic, loaded onto an IMSAI by paper tape. First "code" - punched an IBM card to write code for a Wang Nixie Tube calculator - 1969.
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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. I used BASIC and FORTRAN II, which should give you an idea how long ago that was.
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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 14 (mid '70s). I think it was a PDP-11, used a 300 baud modem to connect with it as it was in the school district's admin office. Used thermal paper output. We must have wasted the equivalent of reams of paper writing and playing our Star Trek program in BASIC!! Looked at it few years later in college, what a mass of spaghetti code!! :-D
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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.)"
7 ish BBC Microcomputer 1984 type 'old' then 'list' after hitting the break key during a game and then randomly changing lines of code to see what happened. This progressed into changing in game messages to say rude stuff. :-D
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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.)"
14, 1970, Fortran IV, punchcards (if you don't count the "Minivac" 3 years before, but that wasn't code, it was wires and diodes and resistors and blinking lights). We had to write a program to sort three numbers from lowest to highest. I was hooked. But the fun really began when I learned that a crash wasn't fatal, and that nobody outside the room (teacher) would ever know. Crash machine, freak out classmates, reset. Cool.
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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.)"
For Christmas '83, my parents got us a TI-99/4a. I had just turned 17. While my brother was only fascinated with the games, I was more curious about the blue screen with the prompt. My first program in Basic simply accepted two numbers as input and displayed their sum. It wasn't long before I discovered how to make the screen change colors, and generate sound. What fun! By New Years, I had a program that played the opening bars of the 'Star Spangled Banner' with the screen flashing red, white, and cyan. :-D
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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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 or 14 years old, back in 86 when I discovered LOGO in a technical magazine. And for the first 3 years, I learned programming and wrote programs on ... notebooks ;) The lightest and most portable ones, totally "green", and made entirely from ... paper[^]. The turtle did really amazing things ... in the virtual machine from my mind. (I didn't got access to a real computer at that time :( ) Then, two years later I discovered a local computers club and joined it. When I went there, the teacher asked me: "Have you ever worked on a computer? Do you know anything about any programming language?" and I answered proudly "I know LOGO!" In that moment all the faces turned amazed to me, and the teacher told me "Well, it's time to give up to childish things and start learning a real language: BASIC" and he pulled me gently in front of the first computer I ever saw: HC 85 [^] (If anyone is missing it's tape sound, you can hear it back here [^]) And one of the very first programs I wrote was a ... 3D graphics app, representing wireframe objects define through vertexes. I'll never forget the Bresenham's line algorithm[^] and Bézier curve[^]. AutoDesk, watch your back! I'm coming !!! Great times :)
