Somehow every programmer that i met, started programming at age of 8-10
Like wtf were you programming, an alarm clock to watch Spongebob Squarepants?

Most programmers I know started at 12 or 13. I started at 12, when I first got into Middle School.

Actually, it was a basic program that asked you your name, age, and address and spit that information back out at you. At that age , I couldn't figure out how to get a fourth variable in

@Michelle yeah, most of us started doing some stuff out of curiosity. What annoys me is that some others try to look and sell themselves as if they had been coding for +10 years straight.

Mostly simple CYOA in BASIC myself. I guess I don't find it hard to believe because I started young. Don't remember exact age, but it was before my teens.

My first programming language was BASIC TURTLE in school.

Sinclair Spectrum BASIC at 9 so yeah...

My first coding experience was to add custom clothing and songs in gta liberty city..

My first bigger program was a utility to change price to coins/notes for my dads hotel receptionist. I was 12 i think.

My son who is 8 is using scratch at school to make a game.. When I was not much older than him my teacher had a commodore vic20 and the only thing you could do on it was write programs.

I started with JavaScript

If that doesn't attribute to how braindead of a language it is, I don't know what will.

I just started at 21... but hey better late than never

I was attempting to learn enough for running a MUD.

I started in highschool, but that's normal I guess.
It pisses me off when people try to show off about this. Bitch I read about genetics and evolution at 9, not even in my mother tong.
Here, I can do it too. But I won't. But I just did.
See? It's ridiculous.

12, asked for your age and told you that you were a dinosaur if over 30. Then I showed my parents and told them to try it

I started at 7 or 8 I think?

I wrote a 3k line batch file to quickly start programs I wanted (with whatever args), make jokes, and talk back to me. That was my first real project.

I even wrote a function to generate an installer for the batch script (which added how-to, path var, etc. on the first run).

It was fun 😊

When I was 8 my man spongebob square pants was not even written. Omg I am so old :'(

Also my generation Had to know a bit of Cli and general software "internals" to even play a scrolling game. So sometimes make sense that we knew how to develop.

That being said i was 7 and writing on the word process of my first pc:

What is your name?

And pressing enter hoping that he would answer.

He did not.

Now when I ask questions my computer Asnwer *demonic laugh* and answer what I told him to answer!

When I learned how to program (not counting batch files) I was 15, in school, in the new computers course, arround 1995/6...
Guess that most programmers who learned programming at age 10, 12 in school weren't born in 95 :p

At the age of 10 I started writing small LUA scripts in a sandbox game, so yeah, kinda

That's how you have 10 years of experience by 20 :D

If you know me, you won't say such things. :(

Have learned programming by typing in games for the C64 in BASIC and Assembler. Yes you had to copy the code from a sheet of paper into the computer. In addition to that i had this awsome magazine for children where you made things like a thermometer hooked to the system, you had to build it, code it and have fun with it. This is how i learned to code with the age of 8.

I started at 14, made a website for my favorite band Stratovarius, it was all static replicated html and css then made it as VB.Net software on Windows Forms

Then things started escalating for me till I got my first job

About 7-8 years old for me, was for a game called Live For Speed (racing simulator), it requires an application that connected to the game server and you could alter the clients UI and display messages etc by altering what the game packets contained - was petty fun but I was probably the most hated kid on the forums lol. Fun times.

I started at 12 and my first website was a fansite for habbo

I started at 8 with Logo on DOS.
It was amazing.

basic and pascal at 8-9:ish for me, mostly making simple games.

@gitpush Stratovarius! 💛

@Root though I'm disappointed no new album yet 😔

I first was introduced to coding at 12 c++ but it went right over my head messed with some basic html and css websites back then and stoped from 13 until I was 29 lol last year. Just got back into it and a lot has changed but it’s fun as hell.

First website. I was 12 at the time with no internet connection and my brother used program like "website downloader" to download whole website jakpsatweb.cz . Sweet times.

The sooner the better :)

One thing with this is even though I started young those early years are not included on my cv in years of xp. It looks a bit silly when some 23yo claims to have 15 years of software development experience.

Technically I did around then too- Logo was the best- making that little turtle design a Spirograph

Now, I got my then 4 year old nephew a code-a-pillar which is a (very basic) programming toy

~11 => plays minecraft => learn 'bout mods => how do I make mods? => Learn Java

I think a lot of folk do start very young. I did.

The annoying part is when people who are 19yrs old say they have 10yrs experience.

That’s just stupid and I would immediately disregard anyone who had that view on it.

At 9/10 years old I was doing

10 print “fuck off”
20 goto 10

My first language was C and second was JS. I mostly created clocks with ticking colon using JS and the text with shadows like the word art in MS word.
I even designed and created the database for a virtual company which made bags using MS Access with all the records of orders, users and employees.
Using C, I basically wrote factorial prpgrams and building different shapes with asterisks.

In the same year I got addicted to yahoo messenger, then IRC chat. I made an IRC bot using don't know which language. It basically allowed me to help.manage my IRC channel where people can talk on any topic they like.

I started at 12, I guess.

@Hu-bot0x58 I'm pretty jaded now.

I was about 9, it was a simple EPOS in BASIC, but I hadn't mastered writing to disk or using a database at that point, so it would ask you to input a full stock catalogue each time you started it. All for the sake of running a make-believe shop with my sister! I remember trying the odd bit of Delphi with the free cover disks you got on PC mags at the time too.

I started when I went to uni at age 23. So many of the guys were like "yeah I've programmed some games, I know this stuff, it'll be easy". They were the ones to dropped out first. It was a bit of a learning curve for me, tbh, but a couple of months of hard studying later I'd caught up with the rest of them.