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

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  • C Captain Price

    :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

    "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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    Andrew Code R
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    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

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    • C Captain Price

      :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

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

      Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am

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      • U User 9036927

        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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        User 10271622
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        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.

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        • C Captain Price

          :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

          "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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          Cloud William
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          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.

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          • C Captain Price

            :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

            "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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            Chad3F
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            9 +/- 1, on a Commodore 64.

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            • C Captain Price

              :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

              "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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              obermd
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              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.

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              • C Captain Price

                :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                "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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                1stFalloutBoy
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                6 Years old, on a Commodore PET at a local Polytech.

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                • M Mark_Wallace

                  Don't knock C. If you learn it well, you can piss all over Java experts -- in Java. Once you understand what's happening with memory, the language/syntax is the easy bit.

                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                  berrymaria
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                  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.

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                  • C Captain Price

                    :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

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

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                    • R Ron Beyer

                      12 or so, spent a lot of time doing weird things with QBasic and TrueBasic.

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                      RineezTVM
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                      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.

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                      • C Captain Price

                        :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                        "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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                        syntotic
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                        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:

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                        • F fbowmanmalta

                          11. It was code inspired by the listings in the Commodore 64's User Manual. Great times. It was 1983.

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

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                          • S SPoss

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

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                            fbowmanmalta
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                            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.

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                            • F 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.

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

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                              • C Captain Price

                                :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

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

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                                • C Captain Price

                                  :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                                  "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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                                  Peter Shaw
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                                  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

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                                  • C Captain Price

                                    :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                                    "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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                                    samahadji
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                                    19, First year in university.

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                                    • C Captain Price

                                      :-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:

                                      "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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                                      pafabian
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                                      12 years old = 1975. infinite loop in Basic. ended up in the Principals office.

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                                      • R Ron Beyer

                                        12 or so, spent a lot of time doing weird things with QBasic and TrueBasic.

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                                        MarvinMartian
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                                        When I was 16, in high school I had access to the Tulsa University computer lab. My first coding was done in Fortran. That would have been in 1965!! And yes, I'm still coding! As long as there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll be doing it.

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                                        • F fbowmanmalta

                                          11. It was code inspired by the listings in the Commodore 64's User Manual. Great times. It was 1983.

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                                          joel vibert
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                                          It was around 1980 too. No hard disk, no floppy disk, just a normal tape recorder. 1 kB of RAM on a 1 MHz zx81 with basic in ROM.

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