How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?
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:-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:
"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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:-D :sigh: :zzz: :wtf:
"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