It was the late 90's and I started learning PHP3 and HTML. Then soon enough I started reading about BASIC, C, Unix, Linux...
Poll: When did you start programming?
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#42If I wasn't such a know-it-all kid, I could answer 90's (99). Instead, I told my dad Python is stupid and I don't want to be a programmer or study computer science.
...then I went on a few years later to study CS and now I use Python.
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#43Er, what about IN the 60s?? 1965 for me.
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#4400s. Unlike many posters here, I only started programming while at the university with c as my first language. I spend most of my time coding in python and javascript though.
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#45In BASIC (the horror) when I was maybe 6 or 7. I tried making text adventure games by writing out every if/then branch explicitly...
Same.. my dad had a big book on BASIC programming and we just got our first computer. I've been hooked ever since.
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#46I was 14 when I began tinkering with the BASIC code of the DOS 'Gorillas' and 'Nibbles' games. I loved changing the color schemes and making the bananas fly ridiculously fast.
I liked making the bombs blow up ridiculously huge for the Gorillas game.
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#471977: I learned BASIC from typing in programs in "What To Do After You Hit Return" and experimenting by changing things. On a Processor Technology SOL.
My dad also had a BYTE-8 (I see that's not even in wikipedia, I think it was an IMSAI clone) and had to manually enter the machine code for the paper-tape loader via a set of paddle switches, one byte at a time (one switch per bit, plus a switch for "set"). Then he had to pull the paper tape through the reader at just the right speed, or he had to start over. Good times!
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#48On a DEC VAX system in the early 1980s.
FORTRAN was the 1st language I programmed in, then quickly followed by a more immersive bout of Pascal.
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#49I started in 2000 (at the age of 10) with my old father laptop (running Windows 3.1). I hit the Qbasic icon because I liked the hummer image and wanted to see what's inside. Really, nothing was interesting, but my father introduced me to few commands (print, if, then...). Few days later, I started reading the documentation in English, even though I didn't know English.
Re: Poll: When did you start programming?
#50In BASIC (the horror) when I was maybe 6 or 7. I tried making text adventure games by writing out every if/then branch explicitly...
Same here, BASIC, 5 or 6. Text adventure games, lemonade stand, and so on.
Dijkstra says, "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." But he complained about nearly everything.