Well this makes me feel old. 30 years since I learned Basic and 6809 Assembler.
Poll: How long have you been programming?
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#1217 Years. This is the source code of the first "game" I wrote in 1997, in QBasic: http://elbertf.com/qbasic/fruit.bas/
This is the code one never forgets. On which computer did you write this in? I remember to have started coding on a Tandy TR-80... how time flies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80
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#13It would be very interesting to cross correlate with age. Some programmers were exposed to code at a very young age. IMO, programming for 10+ yrs by age 20 is far more fascinating of a statistic than say programming for 15+ yrs by age 50. I ticked 10+, and I am 26. I was designing 'web pages' when I was in middle school, albeit geocities html, but then had my first programming class (C++) when I was 15. Curly braces…
I too am 26 and I ticked 10+. I wrote what I consider to be my first real program -- a program with users -- in 2001.
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#1417 Years. This is the source code of the first "game" I wrote in 1997, in QBasic: http://elbertf.com/qbasic/fruit.bas/
Cool. I wish I'd kept some of the ZX Spectrum programs I wrote. I tried a few times by using my hi-fi as the tape out. But then my mom would clean my room and reset it by accidentally knocking it over.
Almost as traumatic as when she dismantled my Lego Technic car with working gearbox to dust it.
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#15mIRC scripting at the age of 12 in 1995.
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#166, 8, and 9-year programmers need not apply.
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#17Started when I was 11. C64 basic :)
Now I'm 31. So yeah, I've been doing this for 20 years.
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#18Truthfully, I never had the interest to learn programming as a kid despite being offered lessons by family and friends. My first year of college I took a ton of random classes, but Intro to Programming was the only class that captured my attention. Thanks to the professor and really interesting assignments I gained an appreciation for programming, and I've been working towards a CS degree from then on. I started when I was 19.
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#192-3 years
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#208 years... and it already feels like forever..