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

Maximilien6-Oct-13 6:39

Maximilien

6-Oct-13 6:39

10-ish.

a Basic and/or Logo line of code.

I'd rather be phishing!

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

Paul Conrad6-Oct-13 14:56

Paul Conrad

6-Oct-13 14:56

Maximilien wrote:
Logo line of code

Yes, I can relate to that. I first got into programming when our "computer" teacher at my elementary school back in the early '80s brought in an Apple ][e with Logo on it. Thought it was really cool, and that's where it all started for me.

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

Mutinda Boniface6-Oct-13 20:17

Mutinda Boniface

6-Oct-13 20:17

14. I remember writing pascal programs and running them on a floppy disk

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

RafagaX7-Oct-13 4:34

RafagaX

7-Oct-13 4:34

for Logo, it was my first programming language when I was somewhere around 7-8 years old, I still have a book on it, (although I don't have a 5 1/2 disk reader to load the interpreter anymore... Frown | :(

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

Mike Hankey6-Oct-13 6:52

Mike Hankey

6-Oct-13 6:52

I was 8 and it was a simpler time (1957) and I was a member of the Secret squadron, here's[^] the details.

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

Captain Price6-Oct-13 7:13

Captain Price

6-Oct-13 7:13

nice commercial !

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

Kobie Williams7-Oct-13 1:05

Kobie Williams

7-Oct-13 1:05

12 years old programming in Basic on a Radio Shack TRS 80 Color Computer II.

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

tpcmurray7-Oct-13 1:07

tpcmurray

7-Oct-13 1:07

Same computer and same age for me. Gotta love those Trash 80s.

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

Manfred Rudolf Bihy6-Oct-13 13:36

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

6-Oct-13 13:36

I'm sorry Mike I really liked you an' all, but now that you've uncovered your membership of the "Secret Squadron" I guess we'll have to kill you. Please do return your official membership card, your official Secret Squadron manual and be sure to also return your combination badge and decoder.

Requiescat in pace.

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

Mike Hankey6-Oct-13 13:55

Mike Hankey

6-Oct-13 13:55

Well dang I've been busted.

Do I have to return the decoder...really? Frown | :(

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

Manfred Rudolf Bihy6-Oct-13 14:02

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

6-Oct-13 14:02

Never mind the decoder Mike, errmm I was just trying to keep you busy.
The SSES (Secret Squadron Execution Staff) should be at your doorstep any minute.

Just a moment, did I really post this in a public forum.
Arrghh, I guess we'll meet in a couple of minutes, wherever that may be.

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

Mike Hankey6-Oct-13 14:11

Mike Hankey

6-Oct-13 14:11

Ah you slipped up my friend the SSES is no longer secret. Smile | :)

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

Pete O'Hanlon6-Oct-13 7:01

Pete O'Hanlon

6-Oct-13 7:01

Why does your message only consist of emoticons?

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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.

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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

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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...

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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.

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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

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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