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How old were you when you started programming?

by fishingisfun on 10/27/20, 9:16 PM with 3 comments

And by that I mean actually being able to put together things that "worked". I used javascript to interact with customers when they landed on my free hosted webpages. remember angelfire, geocities etc;? man those were some fun times

and what are you doing now? I never went beyond that and took actual programming classes in my engineering degree. Never actual had a programming job but still mess with it from time to time as a hobby

  • by vhodges on 10/27/20, 9:34 PM

    13 in 1981 (The first day of grade eight had me in the computer lab). I remember writing a top down scrolling vertical scrolling racing/avoid the obstacles game. load "*", 8 will forever be etched in my mind (We had PETs in school). I've been a paid developer since about '90. These days I mostly do Rails apps (with a bit of Go).

  • by jart on 10/27/20, 9:29 PM

    I got my first computer when I turned 14 and within a year I was writing toy programs in VB for AOL that got thousands of downloads a day. My toy programs worked really well, but I didn't start writing software at a real job until years later.

  • by commonturtle on 10/27/20, 9:18 PM

    14. I used Turbo C++ and wrote little command line apps that solved polynomial equations and drew ASCII shapes :)