I did some BASIC when I was quite small, so around 30 years. Professionally, about 15 years.
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#32I started with LOGO in 1989 and BASIC in 1992. So, 20-odd years or so. And still at it!
Though, I've got a lot less time to focus on it now, with all sorts of other worldly responsibilities.
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#33I think I tried programming initially when I went with my father to a course in BASIC at his workplace. After that we hauled a 300 baud matrix printer-like terminal home, equipped with a couple of sucktion cups for attaching the phone's handset, and a roll of paper.
I distinctly remember that putting the handset in the sucktion cups quickly enough after dialing the number on the rotary phone was hard.
The first real programs was probably later when I bought my Commodore 64 - in 1984. Later I even got a Comal-80 cartridge. Much nicer than the builtin BASIC!
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#343-5 years
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#3510 y'old, with a C64 and using basic programming language
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#36Well this makes me feel old. 30 years since I learned Basic and 6809 Assembler.
TRS-80 Color Computer? That's what I learned 6809 assembly on around 1981, only to be startled how many little things were harder on the Commodore 64's 6502. The extra memory (64k after bank switching!) made up for it though.
I didn't have a multiprocessing platform until 1988 (4.3BSD at college). I wonder how much better I'd be now if I could have gotten my hands on OS-9 earlier.
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#3717 Years. This is the source code of the first "game" I wrote in 1997, in QBasic: http://elbertf.com/qbasic/fruit.bas/
This is the code one never forgets. On which computer did you write this in? I remember to have started coding on a Tandy TR-80... how time flies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80
It would have been an i486, this was in the mid-nineties. I was twelve at the time. I kept all of my code, it still runs in DOSBox.
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#38Related: 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")
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#39I'm just trying to learn using Codeacademy for javascript, MIT online courses for Python and Django Book... of course, for Django. :)
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#40I'm 21 and I started coding 2 1/2 year ago. Though my first tries were on my TI Voyage when I was 16. But those programs were basically a bunch of if/else statements that printed some text.