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I was 10. My mom gave me a book full of BASIC games. The idea was you copy the code, modify it, and learn how to program. I used QBasic because it was already installed in Windows 3.1. I never fully learned BASIC, just the 'basics' you could say. But it did peek my interest, and later on down the road when I saw this thing called 'Visual Basic 3.0', and what I could do with it, I was hooked. I know a couple languages now, and enough about C/C++ to do some damage. If it wasn't for that book I wouldn't know any languages, nor would I care to.
-Cj
import this; import that; del that
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16. In Pascal, first on paper only, then after a couple of weeks, on a PDP-8, feed by punch tape... 
(looks like I am showing my age now...
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Does HTML count? I started Web development in 1998, i was 14 at the time.
Then i immersed myself on the scripting language used on RPGMaker, developing my own battle system as I didn't liked much the Dragon Quest styled battle system the program had, i was more of a Final Fantasy/Chrono Trigger fan.
Later tried luck with Mugen, but i didn't fiddle with it much, just created a couple of characters
My first true line of code was Pascal, back in 2001, the typical hello world. The came around and wrote a little account program for my mom, to help her keep the house accounting in check
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I was 14 50 years ago. It was a machine with only code punching on a punch card. Punching single holes in it. The program was 1st upper half of the card, then the lower part of it.
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On my Commodore 64 when I was 17.
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Not until 18. Late bloomer. That was in 1964, so the only places to get access before you had a job were Universities.
"Courtesy is the product of a mature, disciplined mind ... ridicule is lack of the same - DPM"
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I was 7 years old. It was on a Bell+Howell computer at school (which was an Apple II+ painted black, with different badge and a "suitcsae handle" with proper paddle ports and ectra A/V connectors on the back). It was actually not Applesoft nor Integer BASIC either; it was in LOGO, to draw a square with the "turtle".
The next year we had two Commodore 64s placed in our classroom. Students interested in using them at lunch hour had to get a "computer license" from our homeroom teacher--he would provide us with a lesson and have us write a quiz. Then we got a little laminated card as our "license to compute". We would sign up for a turn to use one of the C64s during the lunch hour/recess first come first served up to a maximum number of times a month (since about 10 kids were "licensed" and there were 2 computers you could not used them daily). The "license" was invented by the teacher basically to teach the rules of using the computers properly and to restrict access to the computers by the less responsible students. I wrote LOGO and Basic code on the C64.
I was 9 when we got our first computer at home--a Coleco ADAM. I wrote SmartBASIC (Applesoft compatible BASIC port with some mods to take advantage of ADAM's superior graphics and sound), SmartLOGO and MBASIC on CP/M (which the ADAM ran as an alternative to the built in EOS operating system). That was when I first wrote code on my very own computer. I wrote my first line of assembly code on the ADAM (Z80 assembly).
All this happened before QBasic (I wrote that first line of assembly the summer before QuickBASIC 1.0 was released), and before my introduction to the MS-DOS world of computing. Guess that makes me younger than a few here, but older than many.
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About 13, on a VIC-20 computer. I still program as a hobby, only mostly in C++, C#, Java, PHP and JavaScript these days.
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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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