The Lounge - CodeProject

First Prev Next

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Captain Price6-Oct-13 7:12

Captain Price

6-Oct-13 7:12

Haha... Good Point.

"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Casey Sheridan6-Oct-13 7:20

Casey Sheridan

6-Oct-13 7:20

Somewhere around the age of 9 or 10, I started with HTML and a little JavaScript.

Then, in late 2011, I got into VB.NET

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Dalek Dave6-Oct-13 7:31

Dalek Dave

6-Oct-13 7:31

I was 11 and it was 1978

---------------------------------
Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

DaveAuld6-Oct-13 7:35

DaveAuld

6-Oct-13 7:35

~10 to 12, Commodore 64. Nothing fancy, just very BASIC stuff...

Dave
Find Me On: Web|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn

Folding Stats: Team CodeProject

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

chriselst6-Oct-13 11:26

chriselst

6-Oct-13 11:26

Me too, although a year or two younger than you were I think.

“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Paul Conrad6-Oct-13 14:58

Paul Conrad

6-Oct-13 14:58

DaveAuld wrote:
Commodore 64

I remember when I got my first C64 back when they came out. Was a fun introductory computer to have as a kid back then Big Grin | :-D

"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

fbowmanmalta6-Oct-13 20:15

fbowmanmalta

6-Oct-13 20:15

Same here.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Joan M6-Oct-13 7:44

Joan M

6-Oct-13 7:44

10 years old, started with GWBASIC, then a Little bit of DBASEIV (11 years old) and a while after that I started with C (11..12 years old) and of course C++ (13 years old)...

Now I'm in robotics and automation in general therefore I'm using Visual C++, HTML, PHP and specific languages to program machines (CNC, PLC and robots).

Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

[www.tamautomation.com] | Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.
[YouTube channel]

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

BillWoodruff6-Oct-13 9:03

BillWoodruff

6-Oct-13 9:03

If you "count" using 4GL to manipulate SPSS, thirty-eight.

Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Forogar 6-Oct-13 9:51

Forogar

6-Oct-13 9:51

I had just turned 16, it was the 31st of May, 1975 when I wrote my first program (in assembler) and sent it off over the teletype to the mainframe at Manchester University - the following day I got the results back - it worked! The answer was 4.

- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Member 41945936-Oct-13 10:36

Member 4194593

6-Oct-13 10:36

I was 26, just out of the Air Force in 1965, working as a tech in manufacturing for GE, I coded on a coding pad in actual machine language, key punched the program in a Hollerith card (multi-punched 12 bits per column, three columns per instruction word - 36 bit words, 4 9 bit bytes per word - on an IBM 029 card punch), then booted the card into the GE 600 system in single step mode, and stepped through the program to verify a failing loop, then ran the program in loop mode and started scoping the wiring.

Dave.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Marco Bertschi6-Oct-13 11:06

Marco Bertschi

6-Oct-13 11:06

16, at the start of my apprenticeship.

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Ravi Bhavnani6-Oct-13 11:19

Ravi Bhavnani

6-Oct-13 11:19

21. Pascal.

/ravi

My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536
Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware
ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Marc Clifton6-Oct-13 12:08

Marc Clifton

6-Oct-13 12:08

In the womb, if you consider DNA as code. Wink | ;)

If you mean computer code, about 12, on a PDP/11.

Marc

Unit Testing Succinctly

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

PIEBALDconsult6-Oct-13 16:00

PIEBALDconsult

6-Oct-13 16:00

Seventeen. 1983. BASICplus on a PDP-11.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

_AK_6-Oct-13 16:26

_AK_

6-Oct-13 16:26

19, started with c.

.AK.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Mark H26-Oct-13 18:04

Mark H2

6-Oct-13 18:04

17, last year of high school in applied maths. Fortran prog to alphabetically sort a list of names.
Bugger me if it didn't work OMG | :OMG:

If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.

“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone

"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Mark_Wallace6-Oct-13 20:46

Mark_Wallace

6-Oct-13 20:46

Mark H2 wrote:
Bugger me if it didn't work

For Leftpondians, who never seem to understand clauses with that structure, that means "it worked, and I was surprised".

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Manmohan296-Oct-13 19:45

Manmohan29

6-Oct-13 19:45

I was 7

It all started with LOGO.

---------------------------------------------
" Future Lies in Present "_{Manmohan Bishnoi}

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

contracting19906-Oct-13 19:48

contracting1990

6-Oct-13 19:48

Pravinda-Amarathunge wrote:
How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

13

It was a PC Logo program.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Daniel Cohen Gindi6-Oct-13 19:52

Daniel Cohen Gindi

6-Oct-13 19:52

4.5

-----
Daniel Cohen Gindi
danielgindi (at) gmail dot com

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

vonb6-Oct-13 20:02

vonb

6-Oct-13 20:02

10 or so, was on a home assembled machine (my father did it), much like a C64.. In.. assembler, later started with BASICA on a Commodore PC 10

The signature is in building process.. Please wait...

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Guy Lavi6-Oct-13 20:07

Guy Lavi

6-Oct-13 20:07

I was 8, and it was Basic.
Right afterwards I started messing with Assembly.

Yes.
Weird kid.

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Sanil Singh Tomar6-Oct-13 20:12

Sanil Singh Tomar

6-Oct-13 20:12

10-ish started with Logo and GW Basic

Re: How old were you when you first wrote a line of code ?

Harry Neethling6-Oct-13 20:13

Harry Neethling

6-Oct-13 20:13

15 turning 16

Last Visit: 31-Dec-99 18:00 Last Update: 18-May-24 21:18

Refresh

ᐊ Prev 1...20515 20516 20517 205182051920520 20521 20522 20523 20524 Next ᐅ

Use Ctrl+Left/Right to switch messages, Ctrl+Up/Down to switch threads, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages.

	No - absolutely nothing to report
	Maybe. Or it could have just been the nylon carpet
	A little. (and please share the details)
	Yes, a lot. (and we absolutely need details!)
	Geomagnetic what?

Welcome to the Lounge

Straw Poll