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

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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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            #179

            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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              #180

              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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                        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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                            #187

                            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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                                #189

                                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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                                      • 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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                                        Naoya Yamaguchi
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                                        I was 12 when I wrote a BASIC program for friends that wanted a program to show people's biorhythms at a school festival. Alas, I haven't made much progress since then.

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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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                                          Stefan_Lang
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                                          21, at university. And technically I didn't write it - I punched it into a punch card.

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