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

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.

pafabian

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

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MarvinMartian

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.

joel vibert

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.

Naoya Yamaguchi

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.

Stefan_Lang

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

Kamil Ilyas

14 or so, started fiddling around with GWBASIC :)

grimertop90

12 years old, wrote my first bit of JavaScript. One of the first really great things I learned was the for loop. I think my first use was something like:

for (i=0; i<1000; i++) {
document.write(i);
}

I was incredibly excited when I realized I could get my browser to print every number from 1 to 1000. I was even more excited when I realized that if I added enough zeroes, the browser would crash and die. And so began an interesting journey into breaking stuff...