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Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Cloud William7-Oct-13 12:22

7-Oct-13 12:22

I was 16, in high school, 1973. Programmable calculator called Compucorp 025, about the size of an IBM Selectric typewriter (anybody remember typewriters?) with 10-key numeric entry. The program was read from punch cards, the language was assembler.

It was like a drug. I haven't been able to stop since.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Chad3F7-Oct-13 14:15

Chad3F

7-Oct-13 14:15

9 +/- 1, on a Commodore 64.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

obermd7-Oct-13 14:38

obermd

7-Oct-13 14:38

In 11th grade I purchased a TI-89 programmable calculator. It had a magnetic card reader that allowed you to store programs for later reload and use. Learned programming on it.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

1stFalloutBoy7-Oct-13 14:51

1stFalloutBoy

7-Oct-13 14:51

6 Years old, on a Commodore PET at a local Polytech.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

ChenShaoHsi7-Oct-13 16:27

ChenShaoHsi

7-Oct-13 16:27

14 Ha ha~~ Laugh | :laugh:

use Qbasic.

for i = 1 to 10
print i
next

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

syntotic7-Oct-13 20:26

syntotic

7-Oct-13 20:26

I was nine when I made my first run of asterisks in a home made computer in school which I suspect had only two instructions, print and for loop. Then Apple was introduced and I went right away to make a programmatic animation, and to start writing the browser text flowing code; much of it went into paper, machine time was more important for games! Mad | :mad:

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

cefarix7-Oct-13 22:29

cefarix

7-Oct-13 22:29

8, it was '95 or '96 and I found a couple books on QBASIC in my elementary school's library.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Peter Shaw7-Oct-13 23:14

Peter Shaw

7-Oct-13 23:14

In for a penny, In for a pound...

7 Years old (Circa 1979/1980), in sinclair Basic and Z80 Machine code on a sinclair ZX80. By 1981 I'd upgraded to the ZX81 and had a massive 16k Ram Expansion Pack on it Smile | :)

Didn't get serious though until mid 80 (Circa 10 yrs) by which time I had an Acorn Electron and a BBC Model B and was regularly writing for the magazine BBC Acorn User here in the UK

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

samahadji8-Oct-13 1:38

samahadji

8-Oct-13 1:38

19, First year in university.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

pafabian8-Oct-13 3:25

pafabian

8-Oct-13 3:25

12 years old = 1975.
infinite loop in Basic.
ended up in the Principals office.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Naoya Yamaguchi8-Oct-13 10:49

Naoya Yamaguchi

8-Oct-13 10:49

I was 12 when I wrote a BASIC program for friends that wanted a program to show people's biorhythms at a school festival. Alas, I haven't made much progress since then.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Stefan_Lang8-Oct-13 22:34

Stefan_Lang

8-Oct-13 22:34

21, at university. And technically I didn't write it - I punched it into a punch card.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Kamil Ilyas9-Oct-13 2:32

Kamil Ilyas

9-Oct-13 2:32

14 or so, started fiddling around with GWBASIC Smile | :)

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

grimertop909-Oct-13 2:46

grimertop90

9-Oct-13 2:46

12 years old, wrote my first bit of JavaScript. One of the first really great things I learned was the for loop. I think my first use was something like:

for (i=0; i<1000; i++) {
  document.write(i);
}

I was incredibly excited when I realized I could get my browser to print every number from 1 to 1000. I was even more excited when I realized that if I added enough zeroes, the browser would crash and die.

And so began an interesting journey into breaking stuff...

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Member 103028249-Oct-13 8:59

Member 10302824

9-Oct-13 8:59

i was about 13 when i taught my self c++

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

jasmith410-Oct-13 3:50

jasmith4

10-Oct-13 3:50

Age 11, sixth grade, was when I was first exposed to BASIC. And I mean *really* *basic* BASIC. That was 1972, so we worked on TeleTypes with infinite rolls of Grade ZZZ paper and paper-tape punches to save our files. Later the school got a Linolex, which saved stuff on regular cassette tapes, then we got a Wang 2200, also with cassettes -- and a keyboard in alphabetical order!

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

BrendtWHess11-Oct-13 14:03

BrendtWHess

11-Oct-13 14:03

Pretty sure that would have been 16 or 17, in 1973/74. Ah, the sound of of the paper tape reader on the TTY. That takes me back....

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

tjwise11-Oct-13 18:22

tjwise

11-Oct-13 18:22

Anyone remember/have the Digi-Comp 1? The "First real digital computer in plastic"? 1963. I was 7. That counts. It needed programming. I got my first paying job in 1968 (12) in high school, programming something called the Wang calculator for the physics teachers. Been at it ever since. Now building eCommerce systems handling $9 billion USD annually. What a fun industry we chose!

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -– Dorothy Parker

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Member 269131312-Oct-13 2:17

Member 2691313

12-Oct-13 2:17

About 10 on a TRS-80, trying to create my own versions of Adventure and Haunted House. From there, moved onto PIMS, their first database. Big Grin | :-D

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Hitesh Seth5-Nov-13 8:36

Hitesh Seth

5-Nov-13 8:36

Depends on what qualifies as a line of code:

If LOGO qualifies then it was 7
If BASICA/QBASIC qualifies, then my age was 9
Wrote for C++ when I was 11
Wrote for VB when I was 13

All on a 40/66/100MHz 486 with 8MB and later 16MB RAM. Poke tongue | ;-P