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You could hook up a cassette player (remember them?) and save/load it was horrible and noisy 
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Yeah - never had on the ZX81 (it was a school machine - bought by the local authorities - one of two for the whole school) - but had one on the old Vic20 and CBM64 - 20 minutes to load a game and failed as often as not too!
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Mmm the good old days, swapping tapes, praying for it to work, kids these days, online gaming mutter...
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I think I was about 15 when I was messing around with Delphi 7. Made a nifty object color changer based off a timer once that same year. Did it for the kicks.
The first time I wrote serious coding was about 2011, when I was in college (Pseudocode, SQL and then C#).
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10 - C64 - Assembly...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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15. Year 2000. C++.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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A better question would be: Was anyone's first code not in a variant of BASIC, and is that a contributing factor in everyone thinking that BASIC is kids' stuff?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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14. year 2007.
C Programming Language.
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Don't knock C.
If you learn it well, you can piss all over Java experts -- in Java.
Once you understand what's happening with memory, the language/syntax is the easy bit.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well said!
That's why i switched to assembly when i got bored of moving asterisks around.
I needed to outsmart my friends and move ALL of the characters on the screen.
Made a nice wheel of all of them.
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I didn't knock C.
Why should I knock C? It's my first programming language learned.
And I'm so thankful to it. Learning C is my foundation on learning other languages.
is for myself.
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8 or 9 years old, with Visual Basic (actually VBA in Excel). An uncle taught me about programming and we built a Tamagotchi-like thing together.
I'm 23 now
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9 - 10 years old, and my first line of code was a BASIC 'CIRCLE' command on an ICE Felix HC 91. Good memories 
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I was about 14 years old when I started coding in Applesoft Basic. After a few years I graduated to 6502 assembler code. That was when I got hold of an 6502 assembler. Before that it was 'peek' and 'poke' in basic or hand assembling the code and typing in the resulting hex dump!
Kim
Senior System Developer
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10.
I still remember making the computer beep with 10 sound statements. Then I discovered the for loop. Awesome!
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I was 18yo. I coded some ActionScript for the web site of a friend's father.
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7-8 on a VIC 20 (and black and white TV). That would have been around 1994.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. [Chinese Proverb]
Jonathan C Dickinson (C# Software Engineer)
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Messing around on a Commodore 16 (BASIC) following the manual hunting for symbols, odd thing most people here appear to have tried some form of Commodore Basic, which was I believe a Microsoft product!
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Fourteen, I guess. It would have been 1979 or '80 in boarding school, and it would have been BASIC on a TRS-80 hooked up to a Philips cassette player and an old Pye B&W TV set. The program would probably have been along the lines of:
10 PRINT "FATHER GALLOGLY IS A BOLLOCKS."
20 GOTO 10
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I gess I was 15. BASIC and Apple IIc. Good times!
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It depends what you call a line of code.
When I was 5 or 6, my dad brought home a Burroughs dumb terminal without any sort of storage at all. Later we got a tape drive so we could save stuff, truly something to make you remember stiffy drives with something like fondness.
My older brother was the true driver of the process, but we had a couple of dot-matrix printouts of program listings, entirely ones & zeros, pages of the stuff, and if you typed them in without any errors, you got space invaders, pacman, or the like. If you made a mistake later in the listing, you might still be able to recover and fix the mistake, but an early typo was instant death.
So, my brother and I would enter this lot over a couple of hours, he would use some arcane trick to make it run, then the terminal was left on for a couple of days or weeks until we lost interest.
Then I went on to study chemistry, and only came back to programming in my mid-20's. COBOL, to show my age. Although really when I started COBOL, people had been calling it a dead language for decades.
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10!
With this!
And i won't ever forget the first days of playing with it!
Behzad
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I was 9 when I wrote my first line of code, and it was in BASIC programming language. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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I was 20. In the year '66, when I was student at Liege university.
Fortran on IBM 360 first. Later: fortran (IBM 370), edl (IBM Series 1), assembler (PC), and now c/c++ whith PHP, javascript, etc
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