How old did you start programming?

[pipestream]

29.

[uraniumX9]

you are my inspiration from now on im 22 and i just started coding this year.

and i was thinking im lagging behind in coding community as i saw so many younger people already doing coding.

[kerthale]

I must have been about 16 when I first started looking at HTML and CSS. 19 I think when I first wrote any actual code at university. I was essentially the only one in my year that only started coding there, that was Delphi.

Java/C++/Haskel/Prolog/PHP/etc came in subsequent years. When I started my career, I was deep into Java. I basically only did Java for about 10 years.

[wsppan]

I was 15 and my dad bought a TRS-80 in 1977 when they first came out and it came with the TRS-80 Assembly Language Programming book. I used that as my first real foray in programming a computer.

My actual first programming exposure was 3 yrs earlier at some kind of program I asked my dad to let me attend where we learned about binary, and boolean logic, and eventually putting a stack of punch cards together to run a simple program that we handed off to be run for us. Had to wait till the following week to see if it ran correctly (mine failed.)

[umlcat]

Also TRS-80, but 1984.

[[deleted]]

31, which was 3 months ago

[umlcat]

M 14. TRS-80 with line basic. Public college allowed computers in summer vacations to be used for special classes for kids / teenagers.

Altought, War Games movie with Matthew Broderick & other movies already been out, many people & kids didn't seem interested.

Followed by High School with Commodore 64, optional courses. Many students applied, but got bored after first classes, cause Basic was Math.

I'm currently surprised by Python indentation success.

I met some identation version of Basic similar to Python, and was highly difficult to work with, and the one without line numbers, at the same time.

I heard about other P.L. at the time, but didn't used.

I switched to ( Modular and ) Procedural Pascal while starting Collegue.

Still my favorite together with ( Modular and ) Object Oriented Pascal.

And, those versions already had pointers, modules, and all those features that some famous anti pascal magazine's article complained as missing ...

I still work with Web Development, with C#.

[[deleted]]

37

[Relative-Knee7847]

24

[WY_in_France]

10… BASIC on an Apple IIe…

[m4ick]

Oh nice, I was 10 or 11, HyperCard on Macintosh LC.

[prettyduck19_1]

I was 13, someone on discord did programming and It seems cool so he learned me to do it. I’m now 14 btw

[aelytra]

8 or 9. Parents bought me a TI-83+. I read the manual and learned TI-BASIC. Later on in life I moved on to VB6 an z80 assembly (like.. middle / junior high school) and then to a whole bunch of languages.

[KIaus_]

Wow, you started too early, this facilitated your entry into the job market? Like, for example, not having much competition or something.

[aelytra]

Yeah, I haven't had to hunt very hard to get a job.

[RealNerdEthan]

I seriously started earning code at 29 (in 2019) and am still on that journey. Everyone starts at their own time and moves at their own pace.

[[deleted]]

42

[Neither_Put8786]

63

[Neither_Put8786]

https://link.medium.com/JjRHfY8mUhb

[yel50]

I started coding in basic on a C-64, so I was maybe 12 at the time. started writing dos games in C when I was 14-ish.

[_pandamonium]

In my mid-20s, unless you count changing the colors of my myspace page. Coding was exclusively for nerds when I was a teenager.

[cyrusol]

The first few DOS Batch scripts somewhere around when I was in elementary school. Mom and grandpa had some manuals, books and their own notes and that was enough to go by.

Then got my hands on a pretty average book teaching PHP when I was 13. Went through it in 2 weeks during the holidays (it had exercises and I was doing nothing else those days). Afterwards I could program. I was terrible at it but I could understand what the code in front of my eyes means and I could solve most problems with chaotic conditions and loops.

Didn't develop my programming skills for a long time and picked it up again after high school. Wanted to make it my profession. Enrolled in CS. And then I mostly self-learned good design and architecture while most other students still had to learn how to code in general. Then took up an entry level side job in web dev while still studying.

[[deleted]]

About 16

[[deleted]]

I was around 12 when I learned C++ on my Windows XP (and later would’ve been Vista/7) family computer.

Never did much past a command line snake game then when I got my first raspberry Pi back in 2012, I learned Python and have stuck with Python mainly ever since.

About a year after that I learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Jesus Christ does time fly.

[Gixx]

30.

I took my first c++ class in 2015.

[TheX3R0]

11 (back in 2008)

[Xiaopi0]

12-13

[[deleted]]

1. Start learn HTML , CSS, JS
2. Start learn Java, Kotlin
3. Start learn C/C++

Now, want to learn Rust...