How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?
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"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.)"
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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"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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"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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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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11. It was code inspired by the listings in the Commodore 64's User Manual. Great times. It was 1983.
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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"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.)"
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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"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.)"
21, at university. And technically I didn't write it - I punched it into a punch card.
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"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.)"
14 or so, started fiddling around with GWBASIC :)
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"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.)"
12 years old, wrote my first bit of JavaScript. One of the first really great things I learned was the
forloop. 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...
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"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.)"
i was about 13 when i taught my self c++
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"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.)"
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!
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"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.)"
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....
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"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.)"
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
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"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.)"
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
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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.
normal cassette tape recorder - ME TOO :-D age 12 Radio Shack Tandy 64 My first BIG program was to quiz myself on vocab words - one cassette wrinkle and it was GONE!
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normal cassette tape recorder - ME TOO :-D age 12 Radio Shack Tandy 64 My first BIG program was to quiz myself on vocab words - one cassette wrinkle and it was GONE!
This is an interesting question because those of us who grew up in an age of valve radios, no TV and wind-up gramophones couldn't possibly have written any lines of code in our early years! I was 28 when I wrote my first line of code - in hexadecimal machine code - without even the benefit of an assembler! A supplementary question could be "What month/year did you write your first line of code?" to which I would reply September 1977 (if I remember correctly). Incidentally, my mention of gramophones reminds me of the 3 standard speeds for records, 33, 45 & 78 rpm and did you know that if you were born in '45 you'd be 33 in '78?
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Pravinda-Amarathunge wrote:
I tried VB fist
Sounds weird and is most likely better a suitable subject for the Soapbox. ;P Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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18 in 1979 on a Nova Mainframe with a teletype machine as a terminal. It could only handle 8 words a minute typing speed and as the mainframe crashed so often, we used to type straight onto punched tape as a backup. Also basic but this version line numbers were required. God I'm old!
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"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.)"
Depends on what qualifies as a line of code: If LOGO qualifies then it was 7 If BASICA/QBASIC qualifies, then my age was 9 Wrote for C++ when I was 11 Wrote for VB when I was 13 All on a 40/66/100MHz 486 with 8MB and later 16MB RAM. ;P