1977, 6502 assembly language (hand assembled machine code really) on a KIM-1. 1k RAM, 6 digit 7 segment display and hex keypad. Still have that computer and it still works.
Poll: When did you start programming?
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#12There shouldn't be an apostrophe between the number and the 's'.
"Will learn in the 10s" should just be "10s", as some people may have already started programming in the past 12 months
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#1380s - TI994A
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#14In BASIC (the horror) when I was maybe 6 or 7. I tried making text adventure games by writing out every if/then branch explicitly...
Been there. Ah, those infinitely nested INKEY$...
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#15Like a few other posters here, I got my start in QBASIC (kids want instant visual feedback, and QBASIC certainly did that). Parents bought a computer, then forbid us to play anything resembling a game. So I wrote my own (and also discovered Gorillas). I think the first thing I built was a slot machine making use of random numbers.
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#16There shouldn't be an apostrophe between the number and the 's'. "Will learn in the 10s" should just be "10s", as some people may have already started programming in the past 12 months
The usual answer to the date controversy is that since there wasn't a year 0, each decade must be 1-10, so the 10s start in 2011.
I'm comfortable with saying, instead, that the first decade had 9 years and the first century 99 years, and so on, but other people seem to object more. :)
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#17In the 90s with QBASIC ... then Turbo Pascal ... etc
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#18Early 80's: C64 BASIC & 6502 ASM =)
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#19Picking up cocoa as my first language over the past few months. Been scripting with jQuery for a while.
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#20There shouldn't be an apostrophe between the number and the 's'. "Will learn in the 10s" should just be "10s", as some people may have already started programming in the past 12 months
The usual answer to the date controversy is that since there wasn't a year 0, each decade must be 1-10, so the 10s start in 2011. I'm comfortable with saying, instead, that the first decade had 9 years and the first century 99 years, and so on, but other people seem to object more. :)
Perhaps overly ironic given my pedantic tags before, but the year 0 issue is something where I see no point being technical. As far as the population of the world is concerned, 2000 was the start of the new millenium, etc.
Either way: while you can claim that 2011 is the start of the next decade, 2010 is definitively the start of "the 10s". I was born in `90, I would listen to an argument that I was born in the same decade as someone who was born in `85, but to say I was born in the eighties would be undeniably incorrect.