Started my freshman year of high school with QBASIC and C++. Moved onto Java 2 years later and finally C, Haskell, Python, and Assembly once getting to University.
Poll: How long have you been programming?
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would recommend not trying to teach for loops etc... Show them how to tie a function to an image to make it move across the screen as a building block to make a game and they will find it interesting. Maybe start with flash/actionscript so they can see (click image > write code for image > image does stuff)
unfortunately in the selection that I have of 8 (mine), 9 (not mine) and 10 (mine) none are bright enough to grasp the concept of a 'sprite' yet, i'm not even talking about relating code to that sprite. flash/actionscript? ho many steps are there between typing something and actually getting stuff appear on the screen? I've written 2-3 simple swf's, and it caused my head to spin... you think a kid could do it? on the…
I am pretty sure when I was 10, it was normal for a kid to know what a sprite was (indeed the finer points of what and how your computer did sprites was playground argument stuff). Most people had at least had an attempt at creating their own game or demo. Kids these days only want to use computers.
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#193How long have you been able to write? DANGLING PARTICIPLE!
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#194I found a newspaper clipping recently while going through my dads estate which announced he was teaching a new class at the local college in IBM Assembler in 1967, the year I was born. He introduced me to computing in the 80s. I miss him.
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#195ZX Spectrum in 1986, but couldn't understand the manual as my English was too poor when I was 11.
Atari 800XL in 1988 where I started with Basic.
Then C64 in 1990 with more Basic.
A500 in 1991 and A1200 in 93 where I did Amos and 68000 Asm.
Then university took over with x86 asm, Pascal, C, Java, C++, Prolog, ML and my first experience with Linux.
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#196Started when I was 11. C64 basic :) Now I'm 31. So yeah, I've been doing this for 20 years.
Ditto on both counts!
Started out on an XT (I think) writing Basic. It's been 20 fascinating years.
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#197Qbasic 4.5. 10 years old. Good times. :-)
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#198Is it just me, or are there large gaps in the possible answers?
You're right. 2 years and 6 months of gaps by the looks of it
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#199Started 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 ga…
I sure thought I was smarter than all the adults when I was 15. I still have no idea if I was right or not.
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#2001969 - Fortran and APL on an IBM 1130.