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How old were you when you started programming?

1 points by fishingisfun ↗ HN
And by that I mean actually being able to put together things that "worked". I used javascript to interact with customers when they landed on my free hosted webpages. remember angelfire, geocities etc;? man those were some fun times

and what are you doing now? I never went beyond that and took actual programming classes in my engineering degree. Never actual had a programming job but still mess with it from time to time as a hobby

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commonturtle
14. I used Turbo C++ and wrote little command line apps that solved polynomial equations and drew ASCII shapes :)
[dead] wryoak
13 or 14? Basic on my TI83+ Spent algebra class making dumb games, very fun

Never took programming classes either, eventually dropped out of high school altogether, but I do web application development now

jart
I got my first computer when I turned 14 and within a year I was writing toy programs in VB for AOL that got thousands of downloads a day. My toy programs worked really well, but I didn't start writing software at a real job until years later.
vhodges
13 in 1981 (The first day of grade eight had me in the computer lab). I remember writing a top down scrolling vertical scrolling racing/avoid the obstacles game. load "*", 8 will forever be etched in my mind (We had PETs in school). I've been a paid developer since about '90. These days I mostly do Rails apps (with a bit of Go).