How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Earl Truss

Let's see ... I was a junior in college and decided to take a FORTRAN programming class because I had heard about computers from a friend who was taking a COBOL class. That would make me .. uh .. 20 at the time. It was the class that made me decide to program for a living. Now I can hardly wait to stop doing it.

patbob

I still have an unpunched punch card. And that's as much as I'll say on the matter :)

We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.

andychurchill

If I have my dates right, 1991, aged 11. I know we stayed at my uncle's house when Terminator 2 came out at the cinema when we were staying at their house one year, but it might have been a year or two earlier than that. It was Sinclair Basic. My uncle introduced me to coding. He wasn't even a programmer himself, actually a deep sea diver, but had been writing utilities to help with the day job. My cousin, a good few years than older me, also showed me how to create a loading screen. He didn't become a programmer either. But I was hooked after that. Managed to get my parents to buy me a C64 so I could learn more at home.

Andrew Code R

I remember it well - 1981 with a Sinclair ZX81. I was 11 years old and had to teach myself, which as it turns out was the best way to learn to program :-D

Steve Mayfield

18, in college - personal computers were still 5 years away

Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am

User 10271622

Same here, except I didn't have any idea of I was doing at the time. PCM, ftw! ("PC Magazine") They had a bunch of qbasic code in the back of each magazine for different games.

Cloud William

I was 16, in high school, 1973. Programmable calculator called Compucorp 025, about the size of an IBM Selectric typewriter (anybody remember typewriters?) with 10-key numeric entry. The program was read from punch cards, the language was assembler. It was like a drug. I haven't been able to stop since.

Chad3F

9 +/- 1, on a Commodore 64.

obermd

In 11th grade I purchased a TI-89 programmable calculator. It had a magnetic card reader that allowed you to store programs for later reload and use. Learned programming on it.

1stFalloutBoy

6 Years old, on a Commodore PET at a local Polytech.

berrymaria

I didn't knock C. Why should I knock C? It's my first programming language learned. And I'm so thankful to it. Learning C is my foundation on learning other languages. X| is for myself.

ChenShaoHsi

14 Ha ha~~ :laugh: use Qbasic. for i = 1 to 10 print i next

RineezTVM

I was 10 or 11 years old. It also started with BASIC and loved it! I was an avid fan of Qbasic until I got to college and understood why complicated languages like C or C++ matters.

syntotic

I was nine when I made my first run of asterisks in a home made computer in school which I suspect had only two instructions, print and for loop. Then Apple was introduced and I went right away to make a programmatic animation, and to start writing the browser text flowing code; much of it went into paper, machine time was more important for games! :mad:

SPoss

10. Basic on a Dargon 32, and I still have it, with tapes and a user manual!!

fbowmanmalta

Still have my C64 complete with tape and 1541 Drive. I don't think it is still in working condition though cause it is stored.

SPoss

Always wanted the disk drive, pocket money won't strech for it.

cefarix

8, it was '95 or '96 and I found a couple books on QBASIC in my elementary school's library.

Peter Shaw

In for a penny, In for a pound... 7 Years old (Circa 1979/1980), in sinclair Basic and Z80 Machine code on a sinclair ZX80. By 1981 I'd upgraded to the ZX81 and had a massive 16k Ram Expansion Pack on it :-) Didn't get serious though until mid 80 (Circa 10 yrs) by which time I had an Acorn Electron and a BBC Model B and was regularly writing for the magazine BBC Acorn User here in the UK

samahadji

19, First year in university.