7-8 I supposed. My dad got us a commodore 64 and some book to write programs. Went through those programs to figure out how things worked. All I made was a text trivia game, was pretty lame. Then I didn't even have another computer until I was 24ish... now I'm in my late 30s and have started writing programs to automate my IT job.
Ask HN: How old were you when you wrote your first program?
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Re: Ask HN: How old were you when you wrote your first program?
#12At 8 or 9 I wrote in an Amstrad CPC 464 a program in Basic that was moving the letters of my dad's company. I remember that at the time, I understood the for/next loop, but didn't think about the nested loop, so I wrote lots of code that could have been a two or three liners. Something like: FOR I=1 TO 100 PLOT I,1 PLOT I,2 ... PLOT I,50 NEXT
Hey, another Amstrad user :) Do you still develop for the system (as a hobby, of course)? There's an active community. E.g. check out:
Re: Ask HN: How old were you when you wrote your first program?
#13At 8 or 9 I wrote in an Amstrad CPC 464 a program in Basic that was moving the letters of my dad's company. I remember that at the time, I understood the for/next loop, but didn't think about the nested loop, so I wrote lots of code that could have been a two or three liners. Something like: FOR I=1 TO 100 PLOT I,1 PLOT I,2 ... PLOT I,50 NEXT
Hey, another Amstrad user :) Do you still develop for the system (as a hobby, of course)? There's an active community. E.g. check out: https://github.com/Octoate/cpc-sdcc-rom
Well, the Amstrad is now either at my parents' house either in the garbage :( so I can't use it sadly... It was in the late 80's that I was playing with it, I'd love to check it again though.
Re: Ask HN: How old were you when you wrote your first program?
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, another Amstrad user :) Do you still develop for the system (as a hobby, of course)? There's an active community. E.g. check out: https://github.com/Octoate/cpc-sdcc-rom
Well, the Amstrad is now either at my parents' house either in the garbage :( so I can't use it sadly... It was in the late 80's that I was playing with it, I'd love to check it again though.
There are some good emulators out there; I use WinAPE ( http://www.winape.net/ ) under Wine, which works nicely on both Linux Mint or FreeBSD.