At what age and in what language did you write your first line of code?
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At what age and in what language did you write your first line of code?
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I think I was around 12 years old (~1982) when I wrote my first basic program. On paper. Yes, paper. I got infected with the programming virus by a book of a friend of my parents. They had a commodore 64 with a book that belonged to it, with instructions on how to program in basic. I just loved it and started to write my own program on paper. Later - in school - I programmed on a TRS-80 system and even later I got my own MSX computer. Today I am still programming. And I still love it. Even after almost 40 years.
Commodore 64 is such a legendary machine.
We had TRS-80 computers at school too, in third grade computer class! We'd sit two or three at a computer and type in programs that the teacher handed us.
Same language as I used :)
I remember that book! 😊
I’d pin it at around 12, and it was HTML.
Maybe not as programmy a language, but my intro was geocities and it’s not too different from what I’m still doing.
HTML at age 12
Same!
😃👯
C. I was 17 when I first used a computer and learnt to switch on a computer. Few months after buying the computer, bought (from Library) a 'Learn C in 24 hours' book by Sams publication and wrote 'Hello world'.
Early 2013 when I was 15. Language was C#.
Started doing that because I liked Redstone in Minecraft a lot and my dad suggested I better learn something more useful 😅
After that I stopped playing Minecraft and started making programs
I was around 11 years old when wrote my first line of PHP in 2001. I used to write modifications (“hacks“ we called them, because we were cool, I guess) for the Burning Board software. Also made styles/templates for it.
It was the BASIC era's helloworld. :)
Same first program on C+4, at age of 12, in 1988.
It was a school computer, no floppy drive, only casette recorder. It took literally minutes to load a program without turbo.
I think it was PHP at age 14 (~2009). Around that time, we started using Processing in school in the computer science class. Before that, we had used Scratch, but I don't think that that counts as "programming" 😆 It was a lot of fun, though. I should take a look at it some time...
It would have been BASIC on a ZX80 which was a nasty little membrane keyboard thing you attached to the ariel socket on your TV. I was probably around 10-12 years old.
From there I taught myself Pascal which I had to boot up on 3.5" floppy disks on the Cannon XT PC running DOS that my dad had bought to help him do the invoicing for his business. During school holidays I would start programming about 11pm and go to bed at around 7am when my dad got up and kicked me out of his home office.
I write my first line of Basic code when I was 13 on a Amstrad cpc 464 ... 35 years ago 🤯