At what age did you begin to program as a hobby?
Poll: When did you start programming in your free time?
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#325. Developing for iOS enthused me, so I took the initiative to start learning objective-c and messing around with cocos2d.
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#523. I had recently graduated from engineering school and realized that I don't know how to program (despite good grades). I also had the regret of not having any side project.
So I decided to spend a few hours a day practicing; it's been almost two years, I haven't stopped since.
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#6Impressive that so many started at 13 or before. I'm a bit jealous.
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#71978. Two years later, I had managed to save up enough money to actually buy a computer kit and run the stuff I had written.
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#8started at about 12 by participating in a Logo "course" in a monthly youth magazine. I don't think I thought about it as "programming" back then, it was more or less in the same category as solving math puzzles and stuff.
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#9Impressive that so many started at 13 or before. I'm a bit jealous.
I started at 13. It was 29 years ago :)
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#10Around 8 with Pascal