Age before beauty
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Just casually looking through the Who's Who here at the codeproject it's interesting to see just how many people don't fill in their age in their profile. So, Chris, how about a survey of ages here at the codeproject so that we can get an idea of the range of ages who 'live' here. That way us youngsters (at 23 I believe I am still classed as young) can have a good laugh at you old bastards. James Spibey "What's wrong with being sexy?" - Nigel Tuffnell
(Attributed to Dorothy Parker)
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Just casually looking through the Who's Who here at the codeproject it's interesting to see just how many people don't fill in their age in their profile. So, Chris, how about a survey of ages here at the codeproject so that we can get an idea of the range of ages who 'live' here. That way us youngsters (at 23 I believe I am still classed as young) can have a good laugh at you old bastards. James Spibey "What's wrong with being sexy?" - Nigel Tuffnell
The reason for not mentioning your age when you are one of the "old basterds" is simply that you have achieved a level of development at which you consider it to be irrelevant. Yourself being only 23 it is only logical that you find it to be interesting. errrrrr.... at least that is what we "old bastards" like to think. bye for now, Filip
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The reason for not mentioning your age when you are one of the "old basterds" is simply that you have achieved a level of development at which you consider it to be irrelevant. Yourself being only 23 it is only logical that you find it to be interesting. errrrrr.... at least that is what we "old bastards" like to think. bye for now, Filip
To be honest I asked the question becuase I'm interested to know two things:- 1) How young people are when they start programming nowadays. I started when I was 17 which is quite old by today's standards but I did start with C rather than most current newbie programmers who start with VB. 2) How old people are when they stop becoming heavily involved with the day to day coding activities and perhaps move into a team leader role where the technical detail is less important. I must be bored, I know. It's all this staring at aeroplanes sending me mad. James Spibey "What's wrong with being sexy?" - Nigel Tuffnell
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To be honest I asked the question becuase I'm interested to know two things:- 1) How young people are when they start programming nowadays. I started when I was 17 which is quite old by today's standards but I did start with C rather than most current newbie programmers who start with VB. 2) How old people are when they stop becoming heavily involved with the day to day coding activities and perhaps move into a team leader role where the technical detail is less important. I must be bored, I know. It's all this staring at aeroplanes sending me mad. James Spibey "What's wrong with being sexy?" - Nigel Tuffnell
I started teaching myself when I was 23, and 18 months later went for my first job. I was programming a robot at my then current job as a drugs researcher, and had written a chemical purchasing system in Access. This got me interested in programming, and I grabbed a book on MFC, and from then bought a copy of VC++5. It was quite a shock to find out that MFC was a subset of C++, and I was not aware of the WIN32 API for about 3 months! X| Even if you are not paranoid, they might still be watching you.
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To be honest I asked the question becuase I'm interested to know two things:- 1) How young people are when they start programming nowadays. I started when I was 17 which is quite old by today's standards but I did start with C rather than most current newbie programmers who start with VB. 2) How old people are when they stop becoming heavily involved with the day to day coding activities and perhaps move into a team leader role where the technical detail is less important. I must be bored, I know. It's all this staring at aeroplanes sending me mad. James Spibey "What's wrong with being sexy?" - Nigel Tuffnell
- The answer kind of depends more on the amount of programming being done. I didn't start programming in earnest (like "this is what I'm going to do for a living" kind of earnest) until my mid 20's. (I think it was about 25 but don't hold me to that.) But I did know some of the concepts way before that. I remember writting a simple BASIC (not the Visual, mind you) on a friend's Commodore (now I'm dating myself) and I wasn't a teenager yet. And in my early days (before I changed to CS) I programmed my HP calculator to graph the Mandlebrot set - for fun. :) 2) I don't think there's a fixed answer to this one. I know people who have gone into the "team leader" role, then later went back to being more of a coder, mainly because the management aspects aren't that fun. This isn't just a couple of cases of people who couldn't hack it; some of the brightest people I know did this. Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.
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To be honest I asked the question becuase I'm interested to know two things:- 1) How young people are when they start programming nowadays. I started when I was 17 which is quite old by today's standards but I did start with C rather than most current newbie programmers who start with VB. 2) How old people are when they stop becoming heavily involved with the day to day coding activities and perhaps move into a team leader role where the technical detail is less important. I must be bored, I know. It's all this staring at aeroplanes sending me mad. James Spibey "What's wrong with being sexy?" - Nigel Tuffnell
Hi James, I'm also a 23 year-old youngin'. I got my first computer when I was 18 and started programming right around the same time in an introductory C class. I didn't really get into it until I was 21, though. Jon Sagara Sagara Software
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Why, anyone born before 1968 Anders ;) James Spibey "What's wrong with being sexy?" - Nigel Tuffnell
*whew* 1969 here. Christian As I learn the innermost secrets of the around me, they reward me in many ways to keep quiet. Men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought Jewellery.
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To be honest I asked the question becuase I'm interested to know two things:- 1) How young people are when they start programming nowadays. I started when I was 17 which is quite old by today's standards but I did start with C rather than most current newbie programmers who start with VB. 2) How old people are when they stop becoming heavily involved with the day to day coding activities and perhaps move into a team leader role where the technical detail is less important. I must be bored, I know. It's all this staring at aeroplanes sending me mad. James Spibey "What's wrong with being sexy?" - Nigel Tuffnell
I started at 14 with Applesoft BASIC, but having said that, in this day and age people don't become programmers until they move from VB to VC. VB is only viable because of all the ActiveX components written in C++. Shoot me if I ever find that I can't focus on technical detail ;P Christian As I learn the innermost secrets of the around me, they reward me in many ways to keep quiet. Men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought Jewellery.
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Just casually looking through the Who's Who here at the codeproject it's interesting to see just how many people don't fill in their age in their profile. So, Chris, how about a survey of ages here at the codeproject so that we can get an idea of the range of ages who 'live' here. That way us youngsters (at 23 I believe I am still classed as young) can have a good laugh at you old bastards. James Spibey "What's wrong with being sexy?" - Nigel Tuffnell
You leave me in a quandery, I am good looking and aging. Does this mean I get to go first no matter what rules apply? Michael Martin Pegasystems Pty Ltd Australia martm@pegasystems.com +61 413-004-018 "Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace" - Victor Stone
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To be honest I asked the question becuase I'm interested to know two things:- 1) How young people are when they start programming nowadays. I started when I was 17 which is quite old by today's standards but I did start with C rather than most current newbie programmers who start with VB. 2) How old people are when they stop becoming heavily involved with the day to day coding activities and perhaps move into a team leader role where the technical detail is less important. I must be bored, I know. It's all this staring at aeroplanes sending me mad. James Spibey "What's wrong with being sexy?" - Nigel Tuffnell
Ok, fair enough. Interesting question really Me, I started with hand crafted assembler which for the younger among you is typing hex numbers instead of actual assembly instructions because at the time there was not really an (affordable) assembler available. Did that around age 17...18. 20 Years later I am now doing C (on embedded controllers and a bit on PC's), VB, Excel VBA, 8051 assembler and god knows what next. As to the leadership role etc... I will shortly be expected to do that sort of thing but I am not sure I really like the idea. I enjoy making things do amazing stuff to much. Then again, with increasing age you live and learn so who knows what will happen or will be enjoyed in the future?. bye for now, Filip.
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Why, anyone born before 1968 Anders ;) James Spibey "What's wrong with being sexy?" - Nigel Tuffnell
Damn! Just missed being young (1966) :-O Oh well, back to the bathchair... Andy Metcalfe - Sonardyne International Ltd
(andy.metcalfe@lineone.net)
http://www.resorg.co.uk"Be yourself, not what others want you to be."
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Damn! Just missed being young (1966) :-O Oh well, back to the bathchair... Andy Metcalfe - Sonardyne International Ltd
(andy.metcalfe@lineone.net)
http://www.resorg.co.uk"Be yourself, not what others want you to be."
I have been amazed at how old NEW events/items are so it is now time to date myself. My first terminal only had paper tape to save programs on. Man was I glad to see those reliable punch cards at school;) Now for the quiz: My first paid job was using a Wang 700. It had one of those new Micro Cassette devises and could store on magnetic tape! Can anyone describe the display screen? Don't cheat and go search Google:)
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Just casually looking through the Who's Who here at the codeproject it's interesting to see just how many people don't fill in their age in their profile. So, Chris, how about a survey of ages here at the codeproject so that we can get an idea of the range of ages who 'live' here. That way us youngsters (at 23 I believe I am still classed as young) can have a good laugh at you old bastards. James Spibey "What's wrong with being sexy?" - Nigel Tuffnell
I am a tender 21 (22 in October). I was wondering though if other developers have a problem being taken seriously by clients when they first see how young you are? lol just today I had to tell a shocked client that I was "24" (a very young looking 24 year old and not 21 as they thought) to stop them from choosing another developer. To me that is really pathetic. It also happens on the other end of the scale, clients aren't interested in hiring my dad because "on seeing your extensive experience, we feel you would be limited in this position". What rubbish. Age has nothing to do with it IMESHO :) ..."ages who 'live' here"... i dont live here per se... ok so maybe I spend an hour or two too long on the Loung... :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible." - Chretien Malesherbes
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Ok, fair enough. Interesting question really Me, I started with hand crafted assembler which for the younger among you is typing hex numbers instead of actual assembly instructions because at the time there was not really an (affordable) assembler available. Did that around age 17...18. 20 Years later I am now doing C (on embedded controllers and a bit on PC's), VB, Excel VBA, 8051 assembler and god knows what next. As to the leadership role etc... I will shortly be expected to do that sort of thing but I am not sure I really like the idea. I enjoy making things do amazing stuff to much. Then again, with increasing age you live and learn so who knows what will happen or will be enjoyed in the future?. bye for now, Filip.
I started when i was 13 in C&QBasic, then C++ and ASM, and now in VC++. I'm currently 17. :-D