I got Visual Basic at 12ish, but didn't stick with it for much more than a few months. Then at 13-14 I picked up TI-BASIC for my calculator. And a 16 I started down the road of "real programming" with PHP.
Poll: How old were you when you started programming?
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#42I was 7 or 8 when dad installed qbasic (and its packaged games - tetris clone, etc). After getting bored with them, I asked him if there were cheat codes. He said there sure were, and handed me a Learn Qbasic book.
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#43Disregarding some unsuccessful attempts in BASIC on a ZX-81 clone I learned programming from a Borland´s Turbo C manual (a Christmas present for our new shiny AMD 386). I was 15 or so and playing computer games all day wasn't interesting enough anymore.
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#44Game Programming at 9yrs on a Tandy TSR-80 on Basic from Microsoft.It was hard at the time, did not know English and the manuals were in English. It was very fun though, and it still is.
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#45There was a similar poll on Stack Overflow two years ago. The results are graphed here: http://imgur.com/MEw6h
Source: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33970/how-old-are-yo...
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#46Commodore 64 bought with a paper route money.
Sub poll, who's first program looked like this?
10 print "Mike Rocks"
20 goto 10
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#47QBASIC circa 1995. I started writing games - and pulled down some open source game code (although I did not know what open source was at the time) and was completely perplexed at what a for loop was.
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#48I was 8 or 9 or so and we were at a point where we were well-off and had a TRS-Model 3 in the house, which was inconceivable at the time.It was a horrendously expensive and beefy machine.
My mother was taking some college courses involving COBOL and Fortran. I jumped on COBOL and helped her with her homework. I later dabbled with BASIC, Pascal, and C like others my age.
This is what sparked me on computers. Before that, I worked on building, listening, and transmitting on radios with my grandfather.
I got started on "UNIX" programming on my Amiga 500 running MINIX (I had at least 3 floppy drives (no hard disk at all), but still did a ton of floppy swapping).
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#49Apple ][ at 9 yo then moved to C64. Did my first machine language programming using a disassembler, typing in the hex for opcodes and arguments. Ended up typing in the source code for an assembler from a book.
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#50When I was 7 or 8 I used to enjoy typing BASIC programs into the TI-994A my parents had bought. One day I accidentally wrote a simple program that did what I expected, and I was thrilled.
My only regret is that I never had proper books for the version of basic I was using (TI, Apple, etc.). This was b/c it was never an intention of my parents that I learn to program. I just found it more fun than video games, even though I could find no explanation anywhere for what some of the keywords did :)