This website has a lot of older, experienced people
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I started a topic about how people became involved with computer programming. The responses were breathtaking. The implications of the responses told me that these people had been programming longer than my whole life on Earth. Some of them said they hooked up with programming since young children or adolescents. The people also used weird things, like punch cards and slide rule. Weird, because I went to middle school with a scientific calculator and a graphing calculator, which also functioned like a little computer. I was never taught how to use slide rule in school, and the high school programming class was all about Java on a computer. No punch cards at all. I wonder if college Computer Science courses would have students punch cards to get a sense of what older programmers had to go through. Is this site mostly populated with older individuals? I sense that many people were born before the 1990s. They began programming in the '80s or even earlier, so they probably lived some years before then, if they started as kids.
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I started a topic about how people became involved with computer programming. The responses were breathtaking. The implications of the responses told me that these people had been programming longer than my whole life on Earth. Some of them said they hooked up with programming since young children or adolescents. The people also used weird things, like punch cards and slide rule. Weird, because I went to middle school with a scientific calculator and a graphing calculator, which also functioned like a little computer. I was never taught how to use slide rule in school, and the high school programming class was all about Java on a computer. No punch cards at all. I wonder if college Computer Science courses would have students punch cards to get a sense of what older programmers had to go through. Is this site mostly populated with older individuals? I sense that many people were born before the 1990s. They began programming in the '80s or even earlier, so they probably lived some years before then, if they started as kids.
Wrong forum: this one is for reports of problems with this site. A discussion like that is probably better off in The Lounge: The Lounge - CodeProject[^]
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I started a topic about how people became involved with computer programming. The responses were breathtaking. The implications of the responses told me that these people had been programming longer than my whole life on Earth. Some of them said they hooked up with programming since young children or adolescents. The people also used weird things, like punch cards and slide rule. Weird, because I went to middle school with a scientific calculator and a graphing calculator, which also functioned like a little computer. I was never taught how to use slide rule in school, and the high school programming class was all about Java on a computer. No punch cards at all. I wonder if college Computer Science courses would have students punch cards to get a sense of what older programmers had to go through. Is this site mostly populated with older individuals? I sense that many people were born before the 1990s. They began programming in the '80s or even earlier, so they probably lived some years before then, if they started as kids.
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I started a topic about how people became involved with computer programming. The responses were breathtaking. The implications of the responses told me that these people had been programming longer than my whole life on Earth. Some of them said they hooked up with programming since young children or adolescents. The people also used weird things, like punch cards and slide rule. Weird, because I went to middle school with a scientific calculator and a graphing calculator, which also functioned like a little computer. I was never taught how to use slide rule in school, and the high school programming class was all about Java on a computer. No punch cards at all. I wonder if college Computer Science courses would have students punch cards to get a sense of what older programmers had to go through. Is this site mostly populated with older individuals? I sense that many people were born before the 1990s. They began programming in the '80s or even earlier, so they probably lived some years before then, if they started as kids.
What do you mean older? I started 32 years ago, but I'm only 44 - a youngster... (By the way - the larger part of the population of the world is over 26...)
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