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Wrote my first piece of code in Delphi, now i'm C# almost 100% (if you don't count the a little Java here, Python there for some small integrations and Android simple supports) - i was 7 (or 8) years old at the time (really, a littttle thing i wrote with my father's help - really small stuff) - so ... i crossed that 20 years mark i beleave (i'm 34 now) a while ago.
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Please stop using this obnoxious word 
Anyway, 9 years professionally, though I've been studying GWBasic on my own 21 years ago, at the tender age of 12, trying to write some small "app". I also wrote my first VB6 program aged 14-15. It worked but it was a shithole of code with 2k lines functions
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Back in grade 11 in high school I took the programming course. We learned Fortran and used punch cards (or, if you didn't want to wait in line for the one card punch machine in the entire building, you could fill out those horrible "mark sense" cards using a pencil). But it was wonderful. Within two months, I was hooked. THIS is what I was supposed to do. Went to University and majored in Math/CompSci and have programming ever since.
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Well, have YOU tried to use Google search to find something since it started indexing webpages without providing a means to search-in-search?
Jeeves? Thank-you Jeeves ... ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
(Jeeves? Look Jeeves, they're not fruitflies they're those confounded little white-exoskeletoned wingless wall crawlers ... they look dark because they've been soaking in unused coffee over night)
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Got paid for my first program in the 80's stopped getting paid in 2019, hardly touched any code since. It turns out I truly am a tart, only in it for the money.
I did love the challenges a development career threw up, changing languages and platforms, getting a taste for the different industries I worked for over the years. Meeting some really intelligent and skilled people. And I still haunt the Lounge and some of the forums - thank you CP for keeping me interested.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Hope you still enjoy coding when you reach my age... approaching 80, and still play at my code. Not so sharp as I use to be. Learned to code with a character editor on a Silent 700.
WedgeSoft
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Gammill wrote: a Silent 700
Now that brings back memories. In the early 80's my boss had one, complete with dual tape drives. We had an Intel 8085 project, written in assembly language. We used one of the big blue Intel Isis-II development boxes for assemblies, and then transferred the binary onto Silent 700 tape. The Silent 700 acted as a dumb terminal to talk to the monitor program on the prototype hardware, and could upload the binary from tape to the target hardware. We even recorded hand-assembled patches onto tape after the assembled binary.
I won't say "good times", because I was working this job while going to school nearly full time. I got out of class at 3:00 pm, drove 90 minutes to the job, worked until 11:00 pm or later, and then drove home. Get up at 6:00 am, repeat. There was a while there I was getting only 3-4 hours of sleep a night  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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More than 70% members have already been programming for at least 20 years!
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Well about 3/4ths of the profesional workforce is over 35. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I think this just proves the usefulness of this site, for old farts, noobs, and anyone in between. StackOverflow is good, but different. Planet Source Code is no longer useful.
The Daily Newsletter is absolutely required reading. Half my team receive it.
I started learning in 1979, and coding/programming/software development/architecture has enabled me to get paid for playing with computers for a 25 year professional career. What better job could there be?
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Well I'm 80 and entered11 to 15 years. Although I started writing programs throughout my career, starting with my thesis in 1968, these were simply to solve problems associated with my research. It was only after I retired that I have attempted to write Apps. I've found it challenging, fascinating, exhilarating and incredible frustrating. I write terrible code. I try to improve it and most of the time it gets worse. But it is great for the mind 
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Started in 1987, working on a DEC 10 mainframe system, programming with FORTRAN IV.
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A DEC-10 was the main system when I was at university. Mostly Simula and assembler, but also some Pascal and LISP.
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Worked on DEC 10s 1972 - 1985 then a couple of years on Dec system 20s before moving to Vax and VMS. Most of the early coding was in assembly.
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I am hardly 26 right now. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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By starting early.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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give it time that's what we did.... 40+ years
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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You, Maheer and a guy from Scandinavia are the youngest regulars I can remember right now.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Just barely. And there are quite a few others on the site, I believe.
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Another poll should be, "What age group do you fall into"?
I would guess that most are over 50-55 years of age, at least the ones with 20+ years experience.
I am 49 with 16-17 years experience; started late.
I know a great deal of the regulars in the lounge are over 60, some over 70. Not too many 20-30 year old people hanging out there. 
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I'll be 64 this month and have 50 years, but not all professionally.
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Good grief! I'm younger than you are - I'll be 63 next Feb.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Seventy-three and a half, started coding in 1966 on a CDC-3200.
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I'm 72-1/2 started in 78...got a late start!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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