How old were you when you started programming?

[m0307]

How old were you when you started programming and messing with code? What inspired you to start making a living coding? besides money lol.

[StickyGreen]

i learned visual basic back when i was like 12, forgot most of it by now though lol...

[Jer]

HTML isn't programming, but I made my first HTML page in 1996 (When I was 14 years old)

[Jer]

I don't remember when I started learning Perl... it was like the end of 1997 or early 1998

[u-Bob]

when i was about 15.

[mrkris]

when I was 18 i started picking up uh ... mIRC scripting .. found it pointless and moved to perl, then c/c++, moved towards asm for x86/sparc and now muck with mainly perl php and ruby.

[blazin]

About 10 years old.... doing BASIC & 6502 assembler on the VIC-20 and then Atari 800xl... I was such a geek I could code basic things in pure machine code also.... lol

Since then I've done PASCAL, Smalltalk, C, bit of C++ and Java
Now I do all my development in Perl or mod_perl specifically, have been doing that professionaly for about 6 years.

[adultfora]

4 seconds - i just started tappin those 2 brown buttons after i got out of my mom, think the first program was a "i want milk" and damn, no bugs.. it worked from the start!

[CyberHustler]

last week...

[MikeVega]

31 ... i plan on starting next year ...

[Radiate]

When I was 8 I started with Basic and moved on from there

[The Sultan Of Smut]

Wrote my first program in basic when I was 12.

[Theo]

first computer game at the age of 6 (programming not playing lol)

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[m0307]

4 seconds - i just started tappin those 2 brown buttons after i got out of my mom, think the first program was a "i want milk" and damn, no bugs.. it worked from the start!

haha nice!

[Swish]

4 seconds - i just started tappin those 2 brown buttons after i got out of my mom, think the first program was a "i want milk" and damn, no bugs.. it worked from the start!

LOL Sweeeeeet. That was always my favorite too.

[m0307]

first computer game at the age of 6 (programming not playing lol)

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wow pretty impressive!

I started when i was 14 making aol punters w\visual basics lol. good times.

[potter]

VB - back when I was about 15-16 to make aol proggies

[Swish]

wow pretty impressive!

I started when i was 14 making aol punters w\visual basics lol. good times.

I remember those... and scrollers too. Old Skewl!

[m0307]

I remember those... and scrollers too. Old Skewl!

haha yea i cant even count how many times i gots TOSed

[mrkris]

Firetoolz, godpunta ... hahaha

[mfps]

i started writing basic on my apple ][e at 8 years old.
didnt do anything with it until i was about 22, when i learned html

then i learned vb so i could write aol progs. made some crackers and punters and tos'ers, i miss room busters the most.

after that i learned some c++, and then flash actionscript, php and mysql.

[Theo]

wow pretty impressive!

I started when i was 14 making aol punters w\visual basics lol. good times.

trust me i cant code for shit now lol . back then was so easier to concentrate n' learn new things. By the age of 12 or so i had finished the most advanced computer school i could attend (private). All the rest students were either finishing high school or attending university.

sometimes i wonder what happened, like reversed learning

[m0307]

i started writing basic on my apple ][e at 8 years old.
didnt do anything with it until i was about 22, when i learned html

then i learned vb so i could write aol progs. made some crackers and punters and tos'ers, i miss room busters the most.

after that i learned some c++, and then flash actionscript, php and mysql.

its seems like a lot of careers got started out of making progs\punters lol.....at least theres one thing you can thank aol for, but thats about it.

[D]

I remember doing the whole

"10 print 'hello. I am a computer'
20 goto 10"

thing when I was like 5 or 6 on my dad's Atari 800

Started copying game programs out of books soon after, saving them onto cassette tape. Mountain Shoot = uber.

[m0307]

trust me i cant code for shit now lol . back then was so easier to concentrate n' learn new things. By the age of 12 or so i had finished the most advanced computer school i could attend (private). All the rest students were either finishing high school or attending university.

sometimes i wonder what happened, like reversed learning

you prolly can man, just too many distractions like you said. I think thats where a lot of people go south. DAMN THOSE DISTRACTIONS lol!!.

[keyDet79]

I remember doing the whole

"10 print 'hello. I am a computer'
20 goto 10"

thing when I was like 5 or 6 on my dad's Atari 800

Started copying game programs out of books soon after, saving them onto cassette tape. Mountain Shoot = uber.

Yup, that's how I got into it. I had a Phillips P2000 from the late '70s / early '80s, with the same Altair BASIC or some kind of early BASIC version. I remember it was produced by a company called 'Micro-Soft', pretty funny. OS was JWSDOS (before it was owned by Microsoft) and I had CP/M on one of the cartridges.

Aah memories I miss those times.

[Pete-KT]

When I got my first computer at 14

[Napolean]

I read my first programming book in 1st grade (7 years old), but didnt get to start programming until I was 12

[IamShaider]

i was 14 when i started programming at school we were using turbo pascal then

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

I learned Apple II Basic when I was like 8 or 9. Then I learned more Basic and avanced Pascal in high school. Then the first time I went to college(before dropping out for porn) I learned C++. About 8 years later(forgot a lot of things since then) I'm now going back for a C.S. degree.

[naitirps]

was bout 9-10... was curious so i took apart my old 8086 system but didnt hook something back up.. with no hd the bitch would boot straight into basic haha...

but who remembers the days of REAL bbs? iNiQUITY for life babyyyy

[HizAzPhun]

Boredom with Highschool and my TI-84 inspired me when I was about 15 to start learning TI-basic. Looking back, I wish I would have gotten a job or started doing hard drugs or something more socially productive so that I could have lost my virginity before the age of 23.

[Tempest]

I was about 13-14... Commodore Pet computers, little green CRTs, saved things on cassettes..

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=191

It was state of the art at the time... he he he

[loverboy]

18, started with Assembly Language and can no longer recall how my PC's I broke at that time. From Basic PHP to Advance ColdFusion programming

now i miss doing some hard core debugging

[LittleSassy]

Began coding when i was 16. Started with Basic C and Java,then went with Visual Basic to Oracle SQL.

I remember doing the whole

"10 print 'hello. I am a computer'
20 goto 10"

hehehe....same here. I did that when I was on my freshmen year in high school

[Tom_PM]

Around 1988 or so I guess? Somewhere right around there.

[gornyhuy]

I was 9... basic ... on a Commodore Pet computer.
The year was 1981.

[gornyhuy]

I was about 13-14... Commodore Pet computers, little green CRTs, saved things on cassettes..

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=191

It was state of the art at the time... he he he

Amen brotha!

[DutchTeenCash]

12

made a fruit machine with naked girls on a TI99/4a sold it and invested the money in a scanner, scanned pics on a c64 sold them and and and

[Webby]

Hell.. can't remember exactly!

It was around the late 70's when CP/M became "commercial" and before IBM made their first PC. Gotta love 8" floppies!

[Tom_PM]

Oops I was way off. It was 1983 when the Tandy COCO ][ came out. Time flies. So I was 18 or 19.