At what age and in what language did you write your first line of code?

At what age and in what language did you write your first line of code?

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[Patrick Tingen]

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.

[Ben Halpern]

Commodore 64 is such a legendary machine.

[Audrey Roy Greenfeld]

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.

[Sebastian]

Same language as I used :)

[Stephan Nijman]

I remember that book! 😊

[Ben Halpern]

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.

[Stephanie Morillo]

HTML at age 12

[Ben Halpern]

Same!

[Stephanie Morillo]

😃👯

[Kalaiarasan Pushpanathan]

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'.

[Dion Dokter]

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

[thierry tranchina]

I write my first line of Basic code when I was 13 on a Amstrad cpc 464 ... 35 years ago 🤯

[Jannis Fink]

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...

[Stephanie Handsteiner]

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.

[Rich Field]

17: PIC Assembly Language
Which looks something like this...

Start:
     bsf    STATUS,RP0    ; Select Registers at Bank 1
     movlw  0x70
     movwf  OSCCON        ; Set the internal clock speed to 8 Mhz
     clrf   TRISIO        ; Set all General Purpose I/O to output
     clrf   ANSEL         ; Make all ports as digital I/O
     bcf    STATUS,RP0    ; Back to Registers at Bank 0    

[ferceg]

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.