Hi, I'm a developer with three year of experience. I am trained in Java/J2e but I am mostly a Javascript/Typescript lover <3 currently working in GIS, with ReactJS and LeafletJS
Just about 2 years, I first tried some C and Front course with FreeCodeCamp and the CS50 on HarvardX course for basics.
After that, I learned Java and became a developer. Now I code in Javascript mostly
Started on a ZX Spectrum in 1983 - so that's 35 years. First time I coded for money was probably in the early 90s when I was about 14 - working with a friend converting a childrens' maths program to run on the Commodore Amiga
I was 10 or so, had my shiny new IBM PCjr, DOS2.1, and the BASIC cartridge in the slot. I set out to build a game like MS Adventure (xyzzy!) ... got fed up and quit. A couple years later I found that the back of Sky and Telescope magazine had a BASIC program in the back of most issues and my library had every issue .... so I re-typed all of those and learned a ton.
I wrote some BBS door games in high school but never really "got" it, and decided on a different career.
I graduated high school and didn't do much until I started doing Linux SysAdmin jobs instead of college. I learned PERL to automate most of my tasks and started writing website form handlers and such, and eventually larger apps.
I STILL do PERL as the only dev maintaining/improving 2 large apps driving $50 million in revenue that I wrote in 2008 and a frontend written in ... wait for it ... prototype.js.
No future in that though and I cannot find good PERL devs to help/replace me, so I am re-tooling my brain to a fullstack JS developer and I am re-writing the app in Node and React (after a year of fighting with the company to approve it).
I feel like this is a fresh start and I feel like have only been programming for 6-months now, even though I have been at it for 30 years and employed as a dev for 20 years.
I started in 2012 when I entered University. We learned how to program with Java in the good old Eclipse IDE. Then, because our project where websites with databases, I learned PHP because I though that using WAMP was more convenient.
Later, I wanted to make 3D games so I learned C# to be able to code in Unity (I despised Javascript at the time). I moved from Unity to Superpowers (a 3D game engine for the web) and I had to learn Typescript. By using Typescript, I realized that Javascript wasn't that bad.
Then I tried PICO-8 and löve and learned Lua. Because I was used to OOP I used Moonscript instead of Lua. Then now I am finishing my master and in two years, I've doubled the number of programming languages that I know, with C++, Kotlin, Python, Julia, Coffeescript, Wren. But more than languages, I've also learned about computer graphics, machine learning, linear optimization and compilers.
Now I am learning how to use Godot and I hope to learn in the near future Ruby and why not do stuff with web assembly.
As a teen, I learned to program on an Atari 800XL Was loads of fun. Got my first paying programming job on that machine. Wrote a starfield simulation for the end of show credits for a cable TV show. :-) Went on to get a degree and now have over 35 years experience in everything from C++, Vala, Ruby, PHP, R, and .NET. Also, have held about every job there is in our industry from junior developer to a VP at a consulting firm. These days I just freelance and pick and choose my projects. I've had a great career and really enjoy what I do.
I'm a software developer who's passionate about a lot of things! I have a broad range of interests that includes computer science, math, people, and products. Always be learning. ✌️
In 2008 I was 12 years old and I was in one IT magazine group on Facebook and some guy posted a video about a game he was developing. I jumped to comments and asked him everything about it. I ended up learning Python and Pygame and developing some text-based games and simple games in Pygame but I was always terrible at math so I didn't come a long way with my game dev career, but during next few years until 2014 I ended up going through C++, C#, Java, Unity, PHP, Ruby on Rails, etc... Basically just exploring languages and doing simple stuff not knowing which filed to pick up because I was really excited and overwhelmed with everything.
In 2014 (I ended my 3rd year in high school) I ended up getting an internship over the summer in the first Croatian Y-Combinator founded startup and I decided I will pick up front-end development because I loved programming and design.
That internship went well for me and I decided I don't want to go to college anymore.
During the final year I ended up picking up a few freelance projects in Angular and Ionic and saved some money for an apartment and I moved to Zagreb and I got a job as Front-End Developer where I stayed for almost 2 years and last summer I got a new job as Senior JavaScript developer where I currently work. Being "Senior" can be interpreted in a lot of ways and it differs among companies. Basically, I can do good technical decisions, work on my own and teach other people and I love doing it.
So I would say that I'm programming for about 10 years. But 4 years in a specific field. :)
Started way back in winter of 1982/3 on ZX Spectrum (that I still own).
My first paying job was in summer 1985 as a student/intern, making small updates to some business software written in Fortran, running on a PDP-11 clone.
Initially back in 1998 - '99 on an old IBM machine, that ran Turbo Pascal, for about 1.5 years. Wrote a program that could read a number from input and find out if it's a palindrome or not.
Then I got back into programming back in the summer of 2006. So aprox 11 years.
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Depends on what you want to count, I been always interesting in programming since young age. I would say 18 to 20 years.
Professional programming, closer to 12-15 years.
Just about 2 years, I first tried some C and Front course with FreeCodeCamp and the CS50 on HarvardX course for basics.
After that, I learned Java and became a developer. Now I code in Javascript mostly
Started on a ZX Spectrum in 1983 - so that's 35 years. First time I coded for money was probably in the early 90s when I was about 14 - working with a friend converting a childrens' maths program to run on the Commodore Amiga
I was 10 or so, had my shiny new IBM PCjr, DOS2.1, and the BASIC cartridge in the slot. I set out to build a game like MS Adventure (xyzzy!) ... got fed up and quit. A couple years later I found that the back of Sky and Telescope magazine had a BASIC program in the back of most issues and my library had every issue .... so I re-typed all of those and learned a ton.
I wrote some BBS door games in high school but never really "got" it, and decided on a different career.
I graduated high school and didn't do much until I started doing Linux SysAdmin jobs instead of college. I learned PERL to automate most of my tasks and started writing website form handlers and such, and eventually larger apps.
I STILL do PERL as the only dev maintaining/improving 2 large apps driving $50 million in revenue that I wrote in 2008 and a frontend written in ... wait for it ... prototype.js.
No future in that though and I cannot find good PERL devs to help/replace me, so I am re-tooling my brain to a fullstack JS developer and I am re-writing the app in Node and React (after a year of fighting with the company to approve it).
I feel like this is a fresh start and I feel like have only been programming for 6-months now, even though I have been at it for 30 years and employed as a dev for 20 years.
I started in 2012 when I entered University. We learned how to program with Java in the good old Eclipse IDE. Then, because our project where websites with databases, I learned PHP because I though that using WAMP was more convenient.
Later, I wanted to make 3D games so I learned C# to be able to code in Unity (I despised Javascript at the time). I moved from Unity to Superpowers (a 3D game engine for the web) and I had to learn Typescript. By using Typescript, I realized that Javascript wasn't that bad.
Then I tried PICO-8 and löve and learned Lua. Because I was used to OOP I used Moonscript instead of Lua. Then now I am finishing my master and in two years, I've doubled the number of programming languages that I know, with C++, Kotlin, Python, Julia, Coffeescript, Wren. But more than languages, I've also learned about computer graphics, machine learning, linear optimization and compilers.
Now I am learning how to use Godot and I hope to learn in the near future Ruby and why not do stuff with web assembly.
I started in a C64... In 1989!was a commodore 64 batman edition.
Professionally, in the year 2000, with VB6 and Asp2.0... But migrated quickly to Delphi.
That's a lot of time! 🙄
As a teen, I learned to program on an Atari 800XL Was loads of fun. Got my first paying programming job on that machine. Wrote a starfield simulation for the end of show credits for a cable TV show. :-) Went on to get a degree and now have over 35 years experience in everything from C++, Vala, Ruby, PHP, R, and .NET. Also, have held about every job there is in our industry from junior developer to a VP at a consulting firm. These days I just freelance and pick and choose my projects. I've had a great career and really enjoy what I do.
In 2008 I was 12 years old and I was in one IT magazine group on Facebook and some guy posted a video about a game he was developing. I jumped to comments and asked him everything about it. I ended up learning Python and Pygame and developing some text-based games and simple games in Pygame but I was always terrible at math so I didn't come a long way with my game dev career, but during next few years until 2014 I ended up going through C++, C#, Java, Unity, PHP, Ruby on Rails, etc... Basically just exploring languages and doing simple stuff not knowing which filed to pick up because I was really excited and overwhelmed with everything.
In 2014 (I ended my 3rd year in high school) I ended up getting an internship over the summer in the first Croatian Y-Combinator founded startup and I decided I will pick up front-end development because I loved programming and design.
That internship went well for me and I decided I don't want to go to college anymore.
During the final year I ended up picking up a few freelance projects in Angular and Ionic and saved some money for an apartment and I moved to Zagreb and I got a job as Front-End Developer where I stayed for almost 2 years and last summer I got a new job as Senior JavaScript developer where I currently work. Being "Senior" can be interpreted in a lot of ways and it differs among companies. Basically, I can do good technical decisions, work on my own and teach other people and I love doing it.
So I would say that I'm programming for about 10 years. But 4 years in a specific field. :)
Started way back in winter of 1982/3 on ZX Spectrum (that I still own).
My first paying job was in summer 1985 as a student/intern, making small updates to some business software written in Fortran, running on a PDP-11 clone.
Initially back in 1998 - '99 on an old IBM machine, that ran Turbo Pascal, for about 1.5 years. Wrote a program that could read a number from input and find out if it's a palindrome or not.
Then I got back into programming back in the summer of 2006. So aprox 11 years.