I think I started now almost 10 years ago, when I was 12. Two of my friends created a website and I was really fascinated about it, went home, printed out 140 pages of HTML and JS tutorials, and read all of it the same day. Fun times :)
Woah... I was born in '94. 😁
Started coding in college 4 years ago, dropped out, started coding for money 3 years ago, and now I'm a Developer Advocate. So I basically talk about coding... for money. 😐
I'm a Full Stack Developer with a background in martech and sustainable entrepreneurship. I love building things that make a positive influence on the world around us.
Well, to be honest, it was a 2 year journey. I started writing about coding and built up a following on Medium. This was followed by actively contributing to my local dev community and teaching programming courses. I started speaking at Meetups on a regular basis, ultimately organizing and hosting them myself.
All of this contributed to technical knowledge, writing prowess and people skills, which are crucial if you want to be a Developer Advocate.
(Feel free to message me directly if you want a more detailed explanation.)
Hm, I started C/C++ when i was 12 but i start HTML/CSS when i was 13, I stopped a few years and I started again 4 years ago in hight school, now it's my job ~
I am an OpenEdge (aka Progress) developer that loves clean code and good looking applications that are easy to use. My main pet project is the Progress DataDigger
Must have been in 1982, around my 12th I guess. Funny part was that I did not have a computer, but I was fascinated by them, so I borrowed a C64 book from my parent's friends and read it from cover to cover and back and started programming on paper due to lack of a real computer. Later - 1983/1984 - at school, we got access to MSX computers and later to Tandy TRS80 computers. I bought my own MSX2 in 1985. As of today, I am still a developer :)
Peter is the former President of the New Zealand Open Source Society. He is currently working on Business Workflow Automation, and is the core maintainer for Gravity Workflow a GPL workflow engine.
In 1981 I got my first computer, the ZX81. I typed in computer programs from magazines and modified them to do new things, learning to program. In high school I wrote a messaging system for the students on the BBC Micros. By 19 I had moved to the PC and was running my own bulletin board using software I had written in GWBASIC.
Here is a interview I did several years ago for DownToTheWire, a Internet History in New Zealand.
OMG same. I was a member of the Sinclair Users Club back in 1982. Being the party animals we were, we used to meet on Friday nights at the Chess Club on Bealey Ave, in Christchurch. I was just typing stuff in from magazines, but my neighbour Simon Glass (year older than me, now an engineer at Google in CA, go figure) was a bit of a prodigy and used to come over with programs he'd developed in hex and written on bits of paper, type them in and bingo we'd have something cool and mysterious happening on that little computer.
Around that time, Tron appeared in movie theatres, so off we went and it was a blast. After that, I remember hanging out so badly for good graphics hardware. The next couple of decades went so SLOOOOWLY..
I wrote my first actual program on a computer around 1978 in a college math class. I bought a Timex-Sinclair computer in late 1982 and a Radio Shack Color Computer in 1984.
My first paid programming job, a contract, was in 1984, writing a inventory tracking program for a logging company in a non-standard CPM BASIC. I did a lot of tech support work from 1985 to 1988, learning a lot of programming during that time, mainly C and MASM. I began my first full time job doing software development in 1988.
I started 4 years ago. I first learnt css and html then WordPress, jquery.
Now I am working as full stack developer.
Now I know, laravel, Angularjs, Vuejs, Reactjs.
I love and enjoy to code :)
I'm a Full Stack Developer with a background in martech and sustainable entrepreneurship. I love building things that make a positive influence on the world around us.
I was about 10 years old (2003ish) when I wrote my first HTML/CSS line. I was that crazy horse girl, and there was a site/game called Horseland. You could personalize your profile page, which I'm sure I did in truly horrendous style.
I picked it up seriously again when I was about 19, working on entrepreneurial ventures and needing web presence. Then I realized I could charge other people for the same, and kept learning!
Hi my name is Omar, I’m a software engineer that specializes in creating great front end experiences, primarily using react. When I’m not engineering I like to game and make music.
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I think I started now almost 10 years ago, when I was 12. Two of my friends created a website and I was really fascinated about it, went home, printed out 140 pages of HTML and JS tutorials, and read all of it the same day. Fun times :)
Hard question. :D
The first time, I think, was on my first computer, a C64. I tried some BASIC, but only simple arithmetic stuff. This was 1994.
I didn't code until 2002, when I tried some Flash, PHP and Half-Life modding.
In high-school, I had two classes on programming. One about C for two years and one about assembler for one year. This was 2002.
The first programming job I had in 2006, where I cobbled together some PHP pages.
Woah... I was born in '94. 😁
Started coding in college 4 years ago, dropped out, started coding for money 3 years ago, and now I'm a Developer Advocate. So I basically talk about coding... for money. 😐
That's so interesting--how did you land that job?
Yes, it is! I thought about doing dev-advocacy too, but I don't even know where to start :D
Well, to be honest, it was a 2 year journey. I started writing about coding and built up a following on Medium. This was followed by actively contributing to my local dev community and teaching programming courses. I started speaking at Meetups on a regular basis, ultimately organizing and hosting them myself.
All of this contributed to technical knowledge, writing prowess and people skills, which are crucial if you want to be a Developer Advocate.
(Feel free to message me directly if you want a more detailed explanation.)
Hm, I started C/C++ when i was 12 but i start HTML/CSS when i was 13, I stopped a few years and I started again 4 years ago in hight school, now it's my job ~
Must have been in 1982, around my 12th I guess. Funny part was that I did not have a computer, but I was fascinated by them, so I borrowed a C64 book from my parent's friends and read it from cover to cover and back and started programming on paper due to lack of a real computer. Later - 1983/1984 - at school, we got access to MSX computers and later to Tandy TRS80 computers. I bought my own MSX2 in 1985. As of today, I am still a developer :)
From 2015, at college.
In 1981 I got my first computer, the ZX81. I typed in computer programs from magazines and modified them to do new things, learning to program. In high school I wrote a messaging system for the students on the BBC Micros. By 19 I had moved to the PC and was running my own bulletin board using software I had written in GWBASIC.
Here is a interview I did several years ago for DownToTheWire, a Internet History in New Zealand.
downtothewire.co.nz/poison-1992/
OMG same. I was a member of the Sinclair Users Club back in 1982. Being the party animals we were, we used to meet on Friday nights at the Chess Club on Bealey Ave, in Christchurch. I was just typing stuff in from magazines, but my neighbour Simon Glass (year older than me, now an engineer at Google in CA, go figure) was a bit of a prodigy and used to come over with programs he'd developed in hex and written on bits of paper, type them in and bingo we'd have something cool and mysterious happening on that little computer.
Around that time, Tron appeared in movie theatres, so off we went and it was a blast. After that, I remember hanging out so badly for good graphics hardware. The next couple of decades went so SLOOOOWLY..
I wrote my first actual program on a computer around 1978 in a college math class. I bought a Timex-Sinclair computer in late 1982 and a Radio Shack Color Computer in 1984.
My first paid programming job, a contract, was in 1984, writing a inventory tracking program for a logging company in a non-standard CPM BASIC. I did a lot of tech support work from 1985 to 1988, learning a lot of programming during that time, mainly C and MASM. I began my first full time job doing software development in 1988.
I started 4 years ago. I first learnt css and html then WordPress, jquery.
Now I am working as full stack developer.
Now I know, laravel, Angularjs, Vuejs, Reactjs.
I love and enjoy to code :)
I was about 10 years old (2003ish) when I wrote my first HTML/CSS line. I was that crazy horse girl, and there was a site/game called Horseland. You could personalize your profile page, which I'm sure I did in truly horrendous style.
I picked it up seriously again when I was about 19, working on entrepreneurial ventures and needing web presence. Then I realized I could charge other people for the same, and kept learning!
Professionally just a year. But I was programming in school so I suppose 4 years(didn’t do much freshman year).