I've started coding with 11. Got a Commodore C64 from my uncle. It came with two manuals for learning BASIC, one in English and one in German, both languages I didn't speek at the time. However I figured out I could just type in the examples and see what they did. Not long after I was quite proficient with it. I always joke and say I invented the for loop (which of course I didn't). But in BASIC I only had goto and had to manage to create loops with that.
With 16 I've started with C++, the first time I saw a for-loop explained my reaction was: "AWESOME! They have a (key)word for it in C++" :).
Anyhow. Now, C++ feels like my own skin. I don't need pattern-books to figure out what to do and how (I still read them though).
I am ahead of my colleagues right now but that's mainly due to the fact that all of them were old C developers who were dragged into C++ and struggle with it. There are still a lot of people who haven't coded half as much as I did in jobs that pay four times as much :)
As many others like me, coding is something I love. I can work 8 hours straight, go home, and code more, on my own projects. That does give me a small advantage in one thing. I do indeed try to be ahead, but the person I measure myself with is myself a day before. That's it. I try to learn something each day.
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I've started coding with 11. Got a Commodore C64 from my uncle. It came with two manuals for learning BASIC, one in English and one in German, both languages I didn't speek at the time. However I figured out I could just type in the examples and see what they did. Not long after I was quite proficient with it. I always joke and say I invented the for loop (which of course I didn't). But in BASIC I only had goto and had to manage to create loops with that.
With 16 I've started with C++, the first time I saw a for-loop explained my reaction was: "AWESOME! They have a (key)word for it in C++" :).
Anyhow. Now, C++ feels like my own skin. I don't need pattern-books to figure out what to do and how (I still read them though).
I am ahead of my colleagues right now but that's mainly due to the fact that all of them were old C developers who were dragged into C++ and struggle with it. There are still a lot of people who haven't coded half as much as I did in jobs that pay four times as much :)
As many others like me, coding is something I love. I can work 8 hours straight, go home, and code more, on my own projects. That does give me a small advantage in one thing. I do indeed try to be ahead, but the person I measure myself with is myself a day before. That's it. I try to learn something each day.