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Just comment down the age when you started coding..!!

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  • 3
    Mine - 17
  • 3
    I think 15 was when I first touched any kind of code. 16/17 was when I properly got into it
  • 2
    13 or 14, can't remember
  • 2
    I was 15 when I thought "Hey, knowing how to code would be pretty cool" and that was it. At 16 I actually started to learn Java, didn't take a week before I knew I want to make a living with this.
  • 3
    11 I started with programming lego robots in NQC ( some c thing) then at
    13 some pretty basic stuff in python at school and then at
    16 I started working as a junior dev in the holidays :) I don't know what most people would consider "started coding"
  • 3
    Around 12
  • 5
    Lego mindstorms around 8-9. C++ and python around 11-12. Java at 14
  • 3
  • 3
    13 or 14
  • 2
    10 iirc
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  • 1
    Around 12
  • 2
    13 or 14
  • 3
    32 beaches, since HTML doesn't count
  • 2
    12 (ughh Java)
  • 3
    11 (not 3 in binary)
  • 2
    12, python
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  • 2
    9
    Also the same time I built my first computer.
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  • 2
    15 unless you count playing around with LOGO and mechanical tortoises back in primary school (in which case something like 6?)
  • 3
    C++ at 18 :D
  • 4
    If dos scripts count, 5. Else, 10.
  • 2
    around 15
  • 2
    14 when I first touched a hello world in Visual Basic. That's all about that. I had no idea what the fuck our teacher was talking about. I was more into Photoshop & Cheat Engine back then. 18 was when I entered college and learned what programming and coding really is.
  • 3
    12, with web... back when php.

    Now, no php, bad php.
  • 2
    ~18 with C
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  • 2
    Short story longish: Started at 16-19, and then put it on the shelf for "soul searching" (or whatever); then I took it up again at 26. I'm soon to be 27 and don't believe this is a particularly good path to take, but I still find it satisfying to code and learn about CS and programming.
  • 5
    Early teens. I don't remember exactly but it's over 30 years for me. That's right, I'm fucking old.
  • 2
    Around 9, commodore64, using sprites to make a simple rogue like adventure game. I spent all of my birthday savings and chore earnings on a tape drive.

    When I was 11 I started with HTML and PHP/FI on a 486, and used qbasic/vba on win95 (because it was basic dialect like C64), soon after that Pascall, Python and C/C++. Around 14-15 I learnt Lisp and Haskell, and later Javascript.

    At 25 I picked up Ruby, some Java and C# (just the basics). Quite recently (32) I've started on Rust and Go.
  • 1
    Around 11
  • 6
    24... So many started so young.
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  • 2
    11, hacking Jedi Knight cog files. That's when I fell down the rabbit hole.
  • 1
    16 but still haven't learnt probably though
  • 2
    What about @dfox & @trogus ?
  • 3
    14 - apple hyperscript *shudder*, then Casio calculators basic, then much more...
  • 1
    My dad taught me BASIC when I was 8 and that started a whole chain of events that eventually led me here. :)
  • 2
    @arcadesdude HyperCard was the f***ing shit! Man I miss that thing.
  • 2
    @devios1 yeah man! I made a working calculator and some linked documents and stuff that was similar to early html stuff. Having the buttons and stuff to click on was neat. I did have an old floppy around but didn't find my hypercard stuff on it when I checked years ago...nostalgia!
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