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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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16 VB6 it was like magic I'm order the computer write whatever I want 
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Probably about 19. We only had mainframes back then. I had to be trained to use an IBM card punch before I was allowed to write my first line of code in Fortran IV. Those, writes he, wiping the beer froth from his mouth and putting the glass down on the table followed by a resounding belch of satifaction, now those were the days of development.
Edit: Card punch[^]. Don't waste time looking for a backspace/delete key. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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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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