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

[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++

[jasmith4]

Age 11, sixth grade, was when I was first exposed to BASIC. And I mean *really* *basic* BASIC. That was 1972, so we worked on TeleTypes with infinite rolls of Grade ZZZ paper and paper-tape punches to save our files. Later the school got a Linolex, which saved stuff on regular cassette tapes, then we got a Wang 2200, also with cassettes -- and a keyboard in alphabetical order!

[BrendtWHess]

Pretty sure that would have been 16 or 17, in 1973/74. Ah, the sound of of the paper tape reader on the TTY. That takes me back....

[tjwise]

Anyone remember/have the Digi-Comp 1? The "First real digital computer in plastic"? 1963. I was 7. That counts. It needed programming. I got my first paying job in 1968 (12) in high school, programming something called the Wang calculator for the physics teachers. Been at it ever since. Now building eCommerce systems handling $9 billion USD annually. What a fun industry we chose!

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -– Dorothy Parker

[User 2689127]

About 10 on a TRS-80, trying to create my own versions of Adventure and Haunted House. From there, moved onto PIMS, their first database. :-D