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How old were you when you started coding?

Bhagya on June 10, 2022

How old were you when you started coding?

I was 16 ๐Ÿ˜… and you ๐Ÿ‘‡

Here we go๐Ÿ’ชโ€‹

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Tawhid

If memory serves it was around when I was 7 or 8 years old.
I had a windows 7 and a xp machine and my uncle(Lead Animator and game designer) taught me about animation later Flash Games and I picked this up there.

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Wow great ๐Ÿ‘

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Jon Randy ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ • Edited

7 years old - way back in 1983. Writing code in BASIC on the ZX Spectrum 48K ZX Spectrum

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adriens • Edited

I was 8 yo, coding BASIC and LOGO on Thomson TO7 : there were even books about generative art (which was called like that) : you had to manually copy code from paper to keyboard : that was amazing !

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Too fast ๐Ÿ˜œ

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adriens

Indeed, indeed... XD

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Davide de Paolis

I started at 26.
Of course I had commodore 64 when I was a kid and then an old IBM and had some classes in high school where we studied a bit of pascal and lotus123. But I never got into coding. After a sabbatical I wanted to switch career and almost by chance I enrolled to a 6 months full-time course about web development for HTML and Flash Websites.
It was hard, and of course I was the oldest, as I am basically in every team I go, but I worked hard and after almost 20 years I can say it worked out pretty well and was the best choice of my life.

Never let you put off by your age or formal education.

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Yash

I was 10 yo when my dad (who is a software engineer) told me about html, I used to make websites whole day ๐Ÿ˜‚

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Cool ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

It was 2016 when I am also 16 years old and just enrolled in a local computer classes to learn basics of computer. After completing that course my teachers suggested me to do the Web development course and I have started and now I am a senior developer ๐Ÿ˜‡

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CodeFox

I think I was around 15. I was in gaming clans and somebody showed me how to properly FTP to make sites and stuff and I got hooked into making html/js sites.

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jzombie

I started learning BASIC on a Tandy TRS-80 connected to my TV when I was 5 or 6 years old.

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Besworks

Same here, except I was about 7 or 8. The first fully functional program I wrote was a roulette game that was saved on an external cassette tape recorder.

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jzombie

The tape recorder utilized for programming storage was so interesting to me.

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vladi160

23-24 (around 2006-2007), I bought my first PC with my own money and started with Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Unreal GOTY, Half-Life and the programming/development.

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Simon Egersand ๐ŸŽˆ

I was 21. Today, 10 years later, I work as a Senior Software Engineer at Spotify. It's never too late to learn!

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Kithmini

I started coding at my age 19, After completing my Advanced Level exams. ๐Ÿ™ƒโ€‹

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Gabriel Pedroza

I started at like 12ish using scratch but I took it seriously about the end of my first term of freshman year of college

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EzeanaMichael

Same as you, 16๐Ÿ˜…

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Vedant Chainani

I was 12 when I enrolled in a local computer class and started learling C ,C++ and Core Java.

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Mopano

16 ๐Ÿ˜„โœ‹

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Ajay Yadav • Edited

I was 21 years old ๐Ÿ˜‰ and now I'm 26

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Partha Chakraborty

I started at 40

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Alex Black

I was around 9 or 10. Wrote a basic program in C. Also started writing flash Action Script 2 around that time, which got me really excited about programming, since it was visual and interactive.

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Dhanashree Rugi

I was 26.

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Hernan Reyes

I was 16 too, I started with Visual Basic ๐Ÿ˜

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Somtochukwu Nnaji

Wow alot of people began pretty early making me wish i started early as well. My coding started at the age of 18.

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Steve

I was 13. I wanted to understand a cheat program that was written in Autoit. It didnโ€™t understand it but that ignited the spark I guess.

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Medea

I was 10 when I started learning Python.

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Stefan Neidig

First experience at the age of 11. I built a simple "Who wants to be a millionaire" game on a VTech learning computer. Regular programming since I was 16 (game development, C++, OpenGL).

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Randall

I started when I was 15 I think, maybe 14.

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Alessandro Pischedda

I've started when I was 14 during high school first year (in Italy high school starts at the age of 14).

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Mr Mysterius

I think I did some C++ when I was around 14 and a bit later a lot of basic on my Ti-84+ Calculator.

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Nita Roberts • Edited

at the age of 39. Donโ€™t @ me ๐Ÿซฃ

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Gustavo_Rodolfo_Stroschon

Comecei aos 12 com arduรญno, por curiosidade apรณs jogar Minecraft, atualmente estou com 17