As a new decade dawns I thought it would be interesting to see when people of hn started programming.
Poll: When did you start programming?
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#2I started hacking with QBasic before the age of 10, in the early 1990's.
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#3Been programming for over 20 years professionally.
I received my Commodore VIC-20 when I was 11 years old. :-D
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#4Professionally since late 90s, but since late 80s on Commodore 16 and Amstrad CPC. Then Qbasic on a PC. Good times.
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#6Kindergarten, late '80s.
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#7Logo when I was 7, in the mid eighties.
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#8amos when I was 10, then turbo pascal when i was 11 :)
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#9Technically I was exposed to Logo as a kid, but we never kept the computer in our classroom for long. My first exposure to Visual Basic was in 1997 for one semester(freshman in high school), and started seriously programming in C++ in 1999(start of senior year). I do mostly .Net now.. I still feel like I have a long way to go. I never knew how to get developer tools and good documentation till my last year of school. I wish I knew sooner.
Re: Poll: When did you start programming?
#10In BASIC (the horror) when I was maybe 6 or 7. I tried making text adventure games by writing out every if/then branch explicitly...