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

[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...

[User 10272198]

i was about 13 when i taught my self c++