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1986, I was 9.
We had an optional course in the 4th grade, programming on a Commodore 64.
At the age of 12 I became an C128D which I used to write a paint programm. With 14 I bought my own paint programm at the supermarket published on a disk magazine. That was a great experience. 
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Just turned 11. First "instructions" involved our Maths class directing our teacher from the door to his desk, using only a "turn right", "turn left", "walk" and "stop" instruction set. He ended up bruised but we (well me at least) learnt some basic concepts of coding. Next lesson we were introduced to Elliot 903 machine code and after some simple paper exercises, a couple of weeks later used a single-hole manual punch (i.e. a square bit of metal you poked through one of 8 holes in a template) to make holes in a punch card. The cards took more than two weeks to return from the University with our punching errors. By the end of the following term we'd multiplied two numbers together. Basic came the following year and the year after that I'd written my first Cobol "compiler" (actually an interpreter) itself written in Basic... (the others were mucking about with StarTrek games; I was writing a Cobol compiler...   why???)
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1968, 17 years old, COBOL on a IBM 360/40 - a REAL computer with flashing lights on the front
Everything comes to him that waits. Come on, Camelot, I'm waiting...
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2006 A.D 14 yrs old when I wrote my first hello world program in Qbasic......
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First time was in October 1973, I was 21 at computer engineer school, language APL on a teletype with punched tape computer : IRIS 80 under system SIRIS 7, and it was the Fibonacci suite...
And last time I wrote a line of code was this morning, 40 years later, take or leave 2 weeks, it was VB on a PC, and it was modelization of a Robot in 3D.
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9 or 10 (circa 1992), if you consider Logo as a valid "first line of code".
Otherwise, I was 11 when I wrote my first line of QBasic.
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I was 18 when I first programmed, a freshman at college. It was Fortran. I couldn't understand subroutines at the time. It just seemed foreign to me and I think it was the way it was taught. I didn't like computers at the time, and I could only type up punch cards. I loved the computer building with it's glass surrounded by the giant computer.
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14. (1983)
Saved for 6 months (I was paid for washing my dad's car, mowing the lawn, weeding, etc.) and bought a Commodore 64.
Spent afternoons after school with a friend listening to Prince and Michael Jackson's Thriller while coding ROM BASIC with the c64 plugged into his television set.
We both learnt the hard way to first SAVE to the tape drive before running any new code!
I cannot remember how many hours of code we lost because of system crashes. LOL
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When I was 15 and entered 11th grade around 2006 . It was around then that i got interested into coding. starting coding at 15 was relatively quite early in India where most people do not have a computer at home even now. Luckily for me my school helped me tremendously.
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About '83 on my first homecomputer Tandy TRS-80 AKA CoCo writing BASIC
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About 14, in the 80s .. Pascal on a machine with the size of two refrigerators running SIEMENS Amboss 3
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5 and a half. I couldn't read, but I memorized the sequence of keys to type in order to load an MSX game from a tape. And that's one line of BASIC code I will never forget:
LOAD"CAS:",R
At the age of 8 I began learning Basic, and many other programming languages came after.
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15, around 2005-2006, if my memory doesn't wrong
it was macromedia flash's action script, written for my high school's assignment
yes, it was macromedia flash, not adobe yet
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It was 1969 and I was 13.
The language was called "Minitran" and it was Fortran without format statements. A bent paperclip was used to punch out little rectangles on standard 80 column IBM cards which has been pre-perforated.
The turn around time was 1 week (the schoolteacher had to drive to a University, drop it off, and return a few days later to pick up the output). If there was a compile time error, it stopped compiling on the first error, so you just got "illegal statement - line 7" on the printout.
That is a very, very slow way to learn to program.
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11 if I recall correctly, vb6
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I was 13 years old, back in 1973 (BASIC). However, I was 15 years before I actually could run my code - I didn't have access to any computer or even programable calculator before 1975.
- But I miss those days...
/ Normann Aa. Nielsen
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I think about 12 or 13. started with writing codes in basic on a BBC Micro with 64KB internal memory. still writing codes now but for most of latest computers/servers/devices on planet earth, connected to each other.
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In '65 I was in a scout explorer group in East Texas.
The guys at GE allowed us to use their time share terminal in the evenings.
We could each do a short (3 - lines) program and feed the teletype by punch tape.
It was so much more fun then fixing TVs that it became my new hobby.
Twenty years later it was my career.
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12 years old I guess, in 2000.
Started with C, and quickly moved to C++.
I picked up C# 5 years later because I bought a book called "C# professional", sure it was talking about C++.
Best error I've made in my life.
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Around 12 years old (31 years ago now!) on a Sinclair ZX-81. Those were the days, when you bought a computer that came with a programming manual!
Before that I used to go into Laskys after school (a UK hi-fi/computer store back in the early 80s) and do the classic stuff like this on the various computers they had on display:-
10 PRINT "ANDREW"
20 GOTO 10
I was often asked to leave the store.
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I was somewhere between 6 and 8 when I wrote my first line of BASIC. To be fair it was really my dad telling me what to type, but it wasn't long before I didn't need any help.
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Prior to conception, I was a Bi-located, dual conciousness entity, known as Gametes.
I wrote code by telekinetically moving slabs of stone on Salisbury plain.
The program is still running.
Sorry, but I could see this getting silly and competive, so I thought I'd go for the prize for most outlandish claim.
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I have punched cards, sys ops and project managers and feel like that I have been doing this since the beginning of time.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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I was 13 years old and it was on a Commodore PET 3032 enhanced Basic 4.0... I miss those days.
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