I've been using C for longer than my current manager has been alive :-)
Poll: How long have you been programming?
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#122Wrote my first program in FORTRAN for a physics class in college. 1975.
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#123Holy cow, after reading some of the comments, i just realized that I too am a second generation programmer! My dad wrote some software to compute artillery trajectories while he was a cadet in the Navy. He later went on to establish some of the early IT schools for training navy personel.
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#124Started at age 7 on a C64. I learned binary before I could multiply because you needed to understand binary to create multi-colored sprites on the C64. I made a game where you drove a car and avoided things, then another where you drove a spaceship and avoided things, then another where you shot arrows at moving targets. That last game was the first one I wrote where the goal was to hit things, a major departure for…
Why do people continually assume that kids don't have the intellectual capacity to solve problems? The hurdles are only as high as YOU think they are.
Kid wants to make a game, kid programs a game. What's so hard about that? The kid doesn't care about the "barrier to entry" any more than issues like platform, methodology, budget, competition, etc. None of those business decisions are part of their need to make the game.
I'd say the opposite - Kids can cut the crap and stay focused better than most PM's.
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#125GW-BASIC, on an old Canon 8086. I'd be horrified if I still had any of that code around.
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#126Hoooo memories... I started programming in Basic on an Apple IIc. Great machine, built like a tank and so cute with its squared monochrome display. I should by one on Ebay for the fun :)
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#1271968, IBM Quiktran, Germantown High School, Philadelphia. :-)
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#128It 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…
19 years (a few months shy of 20) and I'm 23. I started with my dad's Commodore 64 and the BASIC reference manual. Flashing colors on the screen, followed by very simplistic text adventures.
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#129Related: are there any 2nd or 3rd generation programmers around? My both parents are professional software engineers. (Waiting for someone to go: "I am a direct descendant of Ada Lovelace, now get off my lawn")
Im 25. I remember my dad mentioning writing software to compute the trajectory of artillery shells when he was a Navy cadet. He later went on to establish some of the early IT institutes the Navy uses to train it's personel (this was some time in the mid 90s).
I would hang out with my dad in his office, and that's when i first saw computers. Later on, i was exposed to Foxpro programs in high school and two semesters of C in freshman year. But i was too busy fooling around with my buddies to take notice. I was studying EE, so din't really get much programming practice except for some Matlab.
It was only toward my third year in college when i sensed that having good programming skills might be useful. That's when i started doing some project Euler problems. My final year project involved an embedded networked application, and that's when got to know about GCC, linux and the open source world.
I am now a programmer in a research lab, and my masters thesis involves building machine learning models for an underwater acoustic communication system.
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#130Related: are there any 2nd or 3rd generation programmers around? My both parents are professional software engineers. (Waiting for someone to go: "I am a direct descendant of Ada Lovelace, now get off my lawn")
3rd gen, my family is full of programmers.