How old were you when you wrote your first line of code?

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And maybe tell us what you wrote? 😃

I started at around 15-16 in High School and if I remember correctly it was a little bit of HTML that we wrote 😊

Oldest comments (79)

adro.codes • Jun 13 '19

Around 15, building a gardening game in Game Maker.

Luigui Moreno • Jun 13 '19

23, sure I had written code before to courses in college, but when I start programming for the sake of programming I was 23 YO, I remember the I started reading a "For Dummies" book about css, html and javascript, that also happens to have php included great book at the time by Andy Harris

Rajakumar • Jun 13 '19

i was 13(2008) when i wrote first line :P i did a photo gallery in Html, css, js.
also started programming in java... to be honest the java part is tough as hell for me at that time... :)

Debashis Dip • Jun 13 '19

I think it was around 15-16 as well, It was some visual basic 6 codes, the goal was to build a 3rd party UI interface for a popular chatting platform with some additional (might call abusive) features.

Vicente G. Reyes • Jun 13 '19 • Edited

I was 17 or 18 and was in college. First language was Turbo C(2008); then I forgot everything. Fast forward to today, first program I wrote was a Twitter Bot in Python.

Florin Pop • Jun 13 '19

What does the Twitter Bot do? 😃

Vicente G. Reyes • Jun 13 '19

It tweets jokes from the icanhazdadjoke api hahaha

Arnyminer Z • Jun 13 '19

Maybe 11-12, in school, just trying to get started. Wrote some batch for some testing code.

Jonathan Kuhl • Jun 13 '19

14-15. It was a language called C-Script. C-Script was a scripting language built for A4 3d GameStudio made by some German company. I tried to make video games back in the day and realized how much of a chore that really is.

C-Script later got replaced by Lite-C, a super set or maybe a library (not sure how exactly it worked) of C++. Lite-C you could write any valid C++ as well as Gamestudio's own library of code (so maybe it was a superset like Typescript is to JavaScript, I don't remember.)

Haven't touched it in years though. I have Unity and I know C# but I haven't gotten back into game dev, simply because I remember how much work it was.

Mathilde • Jun 13 '19

Around 14 years old I did the HTML/CSS course on Openclassroom (it wasn't named like that at this time)

C.S. Rhymes • Jun 13 '19

Does writing a sentence with the format ‘if this then that’ count as I’m sure most kids write that at school at some point without even realising its basic code.