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In BASIC (the horror) when I was maybe 6 or 7. I tried making text adventure games by writing out every if/then branch explicitly...
Are you me? I was lucky enough that my grandparents bought me one of those computers that hooked up to my TV, and it had a BASIC interpreter on it. I still have the manual...
Assuming that trend continues, I'd not speculate that there were more learners in the 90s; but where, if anywhere, are the learners from the 00s hanging out?
Er, what about IN the 60s?? 1965 for me.
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Same here, BASIC, 5 or 6. Text adventure games, lemonade stand, and so on. Dijkstra says, "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." But he complained about nearly everything.
I never really got very far with BASIC anyway, and started reading about OOP when I was maybe 12? Hopefully I was inoculated in time...
In BASIC (the horror) when I was maybe 6 or 7. I tried making text adventure games by writing out every if/then branch explicitly...
Are you me? I was lucky enough that my grandparents bought me one of those computers that hooked up to my TV, and it had a BASIC interpreter on it. I still have the manual...
I attribute my code reading abilities to navigating my own GOTO spaghetti while trying to recreate ZORK.
A poll on "how old were you when you started" would also be interesting.
My Dad got me a ahem pirated copy of visual basic 6 when I was about 14 in 00/01 While I'd hate to develop anything in VB these days, it did kick off my interest in software development. Especially when my friend was into it as well so we'd make stuff and share it with each other. Java developer by trade these days, and I use Ruby or Objective-C for personal development.
Hmmm! 90s: 195, 00s: 157. Assuming that trend continues, I'd not speculate that there were more learners in the 90s; but where, if anywhere, are the learners from the 00s hanging out?