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I was in my 20s in 1983 and my sister in-law gave me this TI 99-4A. I was hooked inside of 30 minutes.
XAlan Burkhart
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Let's see ... I was a junior in college and decided to take a FORTRAN programming class because I had heard about computers from a friend who was taking a COBOL class. That would make me .. uh .. 20 at the time. It was the class that made me decide to program for a living. Now I can hardly wait to stop doing it.
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I still have an unpunched punch card. And that's as much as I'll say on the matter
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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If I have my dates right, 1991, aged 11. I know we stayed at my uncle's house when Terminator 2 came out at the cinema when we were staying at their house one year, but it might have been a year or two earlier than that.
It was Sinclair Basic. My uncle introduced me to coding. He wasn't even a programmer himself, actually a deep sea diver, but had been writing utilities to help with the day job. My cousin, a good few years than older me, also showed me how to create a loading screen. He didn't become a programmer either.
But I was hooked after that. Managed to get my parents to buy me a C64 so I could learn more at home.
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I remember it well - 1981 with a Sinclair ZX81. I was 11 years old and had to teach myself, which as it turns out was the best way to learn to program
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18, in college - personal computers were still 5 years away
Steve
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I C(++) therefore I am
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I was 16, in high school, 1973. Programmable calculator called Compucorp 025, about the size of an IBM Selectric typewriter (anybody remember typewriters?) with 10-key numeric entry. The program was read from punch cards, the language was assembler.
It was like a drug. I haven't been able to stop since.
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9 +/- 1, on a Commodore 64.
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In 11th grade I purchased a TI-89 programmable calculator. It had a magnetic card reader that allowed you to store programs for later reload and use. Learned programming on it.
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6 Years old, on a Commodore PET at a local Polytech.
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14 Ha ha~~ use Qbasic.
for i = 1 to 10
print i
next
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I was nine when I made my first run of asterisks in a home made computer in school which I suspect had only two instructions, print and for loop. Then Apple was introduced and I went right away to make a programmatic animation, and to start writing the browser text flowing code; much of it went into paper, machine time was more important for games!
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8, it was '95 or '96 and I found a couple books on QBASIC in my elementary school's library.
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In for a penny, In for a pound...
7 Years old (Circa 1979/1980), in sinclair Basic and Z80 Machine code on a sinclair ZX80. By 1981 I'd upgraded to the ZX81 and had a massive 16k Ram Expansion Pack on it
Didn't get serious though until mid 80 (Circa 10 yrs) by which time I had an Acorn Electron and a BBC Model B and was regularly writing for the magazine BBC Acorn User here in the UK
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19, First year in university.
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12 years old = 1975.
infinite loop in Basic.
ended up in the Principals office.
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I was 12 when I wrote a BASIC program for friends that wanted a program to show people's biorhythms at a school festival. Alas, I haven't made much progress since then.
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21, at university. And technically I didn't write it - I punched it into a punch card.
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14 or so, started fiddling around with GWBASIC
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12 years old, wrote my first bit of JavaScript. One of the first really great things I learned was the for loop. I think my first use was something like:
for (i=0; i<1000; i++) {
document.write(i);
}
I was incredibly excited when I realized I could get my browser to print every number from 1 to 1000. I was even more excited when I realized that if I added enough zeroes, the browser would crash and die.
And so began an interesting journey into breaking stuff...
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i was about 13 when i taught my self c++
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Age 11, sixth grade, was when I was first exposed to BASIC. And I mean *really* *basic* BASIC. That was 1972, so we worked on TeleTypes with infinite rolls of Grade ZZZ paper and paper-tape punches to save our files. Later the school got a Linolex, which saved stuff on regular cassette tapes, then we got a Wang 2200, also with cassettes -- and a keyboard in alphabetical order!
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Pretty sure that would have been 16 or 17, in 1973/74. Ah, the sound of of the paper tape reader on the TTY. That takes me back....
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Anyone remember/have the Digi-Comp 1? The "First real digital computer in plastic"? 1963. I was 7. That counts. It needed programming. I got my first paying job in 1968 (12) in high school, programming something called the Wang calculator for the physics teachers. Been at it ever since. Now building eCommerce systems handling $9 billion USD annually. What a fun industry we chose!
The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -– Dorothy Parker
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About 10 on a TRS-80, trying to create my own versions of Adventure and Haunted House. From there, moved onto PIMS, their first database.
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