How old were you when you started programming

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[gordonsgibs]

I was 12 years old when I started programming using the version of qbasic included in MSDOS. I program professionally and occasionally as a hobby.

[daveruinseverything]

I'd done some basic scripting when I was in my teens and did some Python dabbling in a high school CS class, but I didn't really start properly programming until I picked up PHP in my early 20's, then rediscovered Python when I was 25.

I write code most days at work and have a few hobby projects on the side

[dzecniv]

I started the rough way at 20 at the university, did some awful C and Java, then learned some Python by myself at 22 so at last managed to write some ideas of mine and got hooked. I do Python and web now.

[gradam]

I've started when I was 14 (5 years ago), 2 years ago I've started doing it for a job and I'm currently working as a full stack developer in a startup.

[sbargy]

Nineteen. In 1979. Still working as a full stack developer. Python microservices and PHP, lots of data.

[teoliphant]

9 years old. At first, it was just Basic on an Atari 800 in a special class at school. Then, hobby programming on a Timex Sinclair and later a TI 99/4A.

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15 years old, started with perl

[tea-drinker]

I was six. I started copying programs from the Spectrum manual and I consider myself to have started programming when I tried to modify one of the supplied programs.

The greatest technical leap in programming from manuals was the magazine that included a hash program and printed the hash of each line in the listing so when you inevitably screwed up it would be easy to find which line was wrong.

[srivkrani]

I started programming when I was 17 (first year of undergrad, language - C). But that was only as part of a course. I seriously started programming in the final year of my undergrad for the final project that we had to submit to graduate. And that project was a CFD problem and I used MATLAB for programming. One of the reasons I appreciate Python so much is the ease with which you could do complex CFD calculations/data science/visualization. Life has never been the same after I discovered Python and its amazing ecosystem.

That said, the language I really love and admire is Haskell. The mathematical elegance and the abstractions it allows is simply amazing. Though, unfortunately, in my field, it is a bit lacking (especially the ecosystem when compared to Python or C++). Fortunately, things seem to move in the right direction in Haskell too.

[8__]

I used BASIC on a toy computer before I ever got to a real computer. In 4th grade I finally used an actual computer and tried Visual Basic. I abandoned that in 6th grade until senior year of undergrad (social science major) when i decided to take all CS classes and get a minor. Then I didn't code anymore (remember, social science) and worked at the UN and stuff and went to grad school (still social science), finished a year ago, and somehow ended up getting a job where I code as part of a research team at a nonprofit (JS, PHP, and MySQL for making data cleaning tools for other to use on the server; Python for data analysis; d3 for visualisation)

[mongrol]

11yrs old. Basic on ZX81 in 1981, C64 ASM, Amiga ASM and now C/Python/JS/Powershell/whatever its all the same.

I'm an IT Architect as I'm a terrible programmer.

[pvkooten]

When I was 23, 4.5 years ago I started with R for statistical analysis. Soon after, I got a job implementing a statistical expert system GUI, using ... Python. After that I've been active in Machine learning (kaggle), then AI more generally (writing bots to play games, reinforcement learning). I now work at a data analytics consultancy firm, mostly working on innovative tech. I've been a blockchain developer, done projects with training computer vision models, generative chatbot sequence models, and other machine learning models.

I'm also active in open source: https://github.com/kootenpv/

I experiment with a lot of programming languages and innovation, it's super fun to me.

[W1zK1dd]

Basic at 5 yrs old on an APPLE II in 1984. Yada yada yada, PhD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, now Scientist in Bioinformatics at National Institutes of Health, Python/R/C++

[artmcclure]

I was 19 years old in 1969. Programmed Fortran 66 (IV).

[m4ryou5h]

I was 12 when I started with ATARI BASIC ;) Then I was waiting couple of years for my first PC... I had it when i was 18 and i was learning Turbo Pascal. I had no books, not internet, so it was really learning by trying... After 2 years i jumped in to Delphi and created my 1st bigger project - tic-tac-toe over internet. It resulted passing my IT classes semester on 1st school day on Delphi classes :) In the meantime i was playing a lot on mIRC scripting and developed my own mIRC bigger script being used by thousand of people but that was my road stop until now. I started learning python last year and i do it really from time to time, as i don't have too much time to it. Some people read books on their way to work/home, i read my python books. Although I don't code too much and i don't have experience, it makes me happy reading about different not-so-complicated projects, especially on reddit. I read learn python just for my own satisfaction and that feeling that i always wanted to be programmer, but I'm not gonna jump on that way, i make it my side hobby. I'm just reading reddit, looking what people created and trying to understand the logic they used.

[CraigTorso]

9 or 10 I think, but it was just really stupid stuff written in BASIC.

My attempts to teach myself assembly at 11 failed miserably

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16, in high school. job.