Poll: How long have you been programming?

It 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 do not phase me.

Re: Poll: How long have you been programming?

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Post by ElbertF » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 9:00 AM UTC

17 Years. This is the source code of the first "game" I wrote in 1997, in QBasic:

http://elbertf.com/qbasic/fruit.bas/

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Post by drsim » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 9:00 AM UTC

Very interesting. For some reason I considered myself a veteran at > 10 years... clearly not!

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Post by ra » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 9:01 AM UTC

lbraasch wrote: post #4

It 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…

I first learned BASIC on a Sinclair ZX81 which I got for my 7th birthday. I'm now 37 so I just scrape into the 20+ range.

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Post by jyothi » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 9:01 AM UTC

aaronpk wrote: post #3

There's already some pretty good results here, broken down by age: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3662838

they are different - both perspectives are important to understand HN community. At what age or when did you start coding vs how long have you been coding ?

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Post by derrida » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 9:02 AM UTC

I'm really interested to know what age that PG started programming. Some of the best known hackers started late. I know Julian Assange didn't have a computer before he was 14 but when you have a Commodore 64 you have to program.