Looks as if I am completely typical of this group. I started using computers aged 10, but only wrote programs unambiguously of my own making (as opposed to typed in from a book or magazine) at the age of 11.
Poll: How old were you when you started programming?
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#22I honestly don't know. It depends on how you define "started programming." I remember messing around, typing in BASIC programs with my Bally Arcade console back when I was about 9/10 or so, but my interest in that fizzled out for one reason or another, and I didn't get back into programming until I started writing C code in college when I was about 19. I've been programming continuously since then.
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#23Pentium I at 6, but started programming @ 14 with the same plain-old computer!
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#24I got started with Turtle programming when I was 11 or 12 when my Dad introduced me to it. Had the most fun making a turtle script that wrote "Happy Birthday Dad" for his birthday that year. Fun times!
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#25I don't know, do graphing calculators and html count? If not... really 18 and college.
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#26I had to be 6 or 7 - BASIC, then Assembler, on a Timex Sinclair 1000 - 2K of memory and audio tape storage - moved up to the 2000, then the Coleco Adam, and finally an 8086 I assembled with my father....
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#27I don't know, do graphing calculators and html count? If not... really 18 and college.
I don't see why not...the TI-82 had a pretty robust programming language. I programmed a helicopter game on mine back in high school, as well as the obligatory blackjack and poker games.
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#28Some form of basic (I think basic, but might have been basica) at age 5 on an ibm pc jr (ah early to mid 80s)
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#29First started programming on PETs in 2nd grade. Finally got my own Apple //c in 4th grade. Worked through the AppleSoft BASIC tutorial, then kind of hit a lull until I started BBSing in 10th grade - then did a lot of ACOS/MACOS code, dabbled with (6502) assembler. Then it was off to get a CS degree...
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#30I was eight. The year was 1983, and I was attending an elementary school that was participating in a pilot program that introduced Logo programming to third graders. I got exposure to Logo through the class, and because my mom taught at the school, I got a lot of after-school time in the lab too.
Essentially: I was incredibly fortunate in a number of dimensions. (I still see themes in the way I work now that originated way back when... all these years later.)