1978 ... BASIC (ugh!) on the Commodore Pet (back in the days before companies checked product names' meanings in other languages :-)
Poll: How long have you been programming?
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Re: Poll: How long have you been programming?
#232Started with Commodore VIC-20 listings in magazines.
I wrote some of those in the early 80's ... Rhino, and Mother Hen. Ah, those were the days :-)
Re: Poll: How long have you been programming?
#233I started around 1995, writting basic games on MSDOS, then moved to VB 3 on windows, up to VB 6 where I started mixing it with C and ASM code, VB was for quick GUI and C/ASM for the intensive speed sensitive stuff.
Later around 2000 I moved fulltime to Linux, I started learning C better, tried C++ and didn't like it that much, tried Objective-C and loved it, but Objective-C was very much useless at that time for me, in the end I got around C++ fine, learned C# and finally moved to Python, my language of choice, but I still dabble in C++, Java and other languages.
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#234I started programming on the BBC model B. You had to number each line by hand. The convention was to write the line numbers in steps of 10. Then as you went back and added lines, you'd run out of gaps to fit your lines in. Then you had to use the RENUMBER command and all the lines would be renumbered in steps of 10 again. It was a great breakthrough to me when it was realized that line numbers could be derived from t…
I remember the "Wow!", when I discovered the AUTO command!
Yes, didn't that automatically give you a line number each time you started a new line?
Re: Poll: How long have you been programming?
#235Not long enough: over a month by a few days.
Re: Poll: How long have you been programming?
#236In fifth grade I wrote a D&D random encounter generator in Microsoft Basic on the Mac, sometime in the mid-'80s. Even my rpg-playing buds thought it was nerdy. It used toolbox calls to get real buttons and fonts on the screen. I was a font and design nerd too.
In high school i was very active with several local BBSes in the san gabriel valley and learned a lot from people i met there. When mosaic came out, building web sites was such a no brainer natural fit, I took to it immediately and have been doing it inside and out, one way or another since then.
Re: Poll: How long have you been programming?
#237If you are programming for less than six months without previously knowing the industry and you already know HN, GH and SO you are truly lucky, you are in for a classy act.
Re: Poll: How long have you been programming?
#238Been programming since I was 13. Started off with Visual Basic 4, stuck with it until dot net. Now I hack on ruby, python, PHP, and JavaScript.
Re: Poll: How long have you been programming?
#239Fortran in '70 - so 40+. It's been continuous since then
Re: Poll: How long have you been programming?
#240Professionally, or as a hobby?
As a hobby, ten years this summer (or early fall). Full time professionally?
4 months and 2 days.