Just wondering how much experience everyone has here.
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Just wondering how much experience everyone has here.
I started programming when I was 16, I'm 24 now.
>Just wondering how much experience everyone has here.
You should take note that the number of years one has been programming mean nothing. I've known rookies outcode me on their second year and 30 year veterans who would fail a basic programming class.
[QUOTEYou should take note that the number of years one has been programming mean nothing. I've known rookies outcode me on their second year and 30 year veterans who would fail a basic programming class[/QUOTE]
I know that, as i said, Experience, which doesnt exactly include quality and ability.
>I know that, as i said, Experience, which doesnt exactly include quality and ability.
Just making sure. :) I'm in the process of looking for employment and the distinction between experience and ability seems foreign to most.
another one of these? The last one was better done.
Started programming when I was 10 (QBasic!), I'm now 16.
i started like halfway through freshmen year, and i'm a junior, and i still suck.
Silvercord - from what I've seen that you've done, you seem to be pretty proficient :P We all make mistakes.
I started programming in 4th grade with QBasic...I'm a junior now. So, I won the "over 7 years" award :)
Started with QB when I was 11.
since 7th grade..im in 11th now so hmm..4 years? started with qbasic then jumped into visual basic and now c++
Serious programming (C/C++) - about 5 years unless my mathematical skills fails me :). Been programming in QBasic several years before that, but unfortunately I was too dumb to do anything more advanced than displaying text back then...
i've been doing HTML since 7th grade, then i dabbled in Qbasic for about an hour sometime about two years ago, then i started writing autoexec files for no reason at all, then a little over a year ago i started doing C++...
i put over a year because C++ is the only real programming i've done...
-started with a year of Java (first year of university)
-then a year of c++ and other toys (assembly, SQL, THEORY GALORE.... year 2)
-now i have a full time (programming/research assistant) job for the summer =]
so, just over 2 years.
I learned BASIC at 9, dunno if that counts as programming :D
Learned C at 11, so 12 years ago. Of course, I cringe at the quality of work of my first programs; being self-taught I had some nasty and stupid habits for a long time. And looking at some of my first Windows programs, my first question was "What was I thinking?" followed by the second, "WAS I thinking?".
And I did strongly benefit from learning Java 5 years ago; I knew how to do OOP but never really got the big picture until learning Java in school.
So I guess, I'd have to say I've been programming in C for 12 years, but I've only been programming well for maybe 5 years.
Started in 1977.
Are you sure?Quote:
Originally posted by adrianxw
Started in 1977.
<<are you sure.
he was a programmer 10 yrs prior to your birth.&older than C++
:)
>>> Are you sure?
Yes, absolutely certain. I was in my second year at Uni at the time. To save myself many hours of drawing statistical scatter diagrams, I followed up a suggestion from a Comp. Sci. student to let our Uni's mighty ICL 1904S mainframe, (60k main memory), draw them for me. I did, I was hooked.
>>> he was a programmer 10 yrs prior to your birth.&older than C++
Also true.
>>> Are you sure?
Your point?
So there are old fogeys on this board!
>>Your point?
Point: To clarify that you were not joking.
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Started with Java when I was 9 years old. Then when I was 11, after mastering Java, I learnt to VB6. Then I learnt Assembly to help VB6 out, C# and VB.NET. Then I learnt C++ 6 months ago, my all time favorite language.
What I'm proud of is that I learnt all the OOP techniques from the begining with Java. That way, all my programs are modular/OO instead of functional like most classmates in my C++ do. They basically do C. And in this new age, OOP is the way to go.
I'm 16 now so that'll be 7 years.
>>> So there are old fogeys on this board!
<fx>shrugs shoulders</fx>
>>> To clarify that you were not joking.
<fx>shrugs shoulders</fx>
I'm here, I'm real, think what you like...
//I'm here, I'm real, think what you like...
*sensitive yet evil dork laugh* ahahaha...hehehehe...this could get interesting...
panda bear in fudge day....*sensitive yet evil dork laugh*
Under six months. Whenever I registered on this board which was late november so maybe right at six months not sure.
Started in 1992 with Sinclair Basic on a ZX Spektrum (64 k memory, no monitor, tape device, attached to TV).
Later on Pascal, then Assembly, then Assembly, and Assembly again :°) Just love ASM!
Then C, some CA-Visual Objects (forgotten, first(?) 4GL and probably first RAD tool).
Windows programming with Delphi, then Visual C++.
Professionally programming since 2000 A.D. ;)
>> ...after mastering Java....
thats a pretty bold statement speedy5. Java is a huge language and it would take years of experience to become a "master" IMO. spenging 3 years with a language (especially age 9 -11) hardley seems like enough to have fully mastered a language like Java. but maybe its just me....
I started programming when I was 6 or so. (1987)
That means that I've been programming for two thirds of my life. Groovy... :D
Man, sometimes I miss that Sharp MZ-80. Tape drives ruled back then... I still got the manual. I also kept both Commodore 64 manuals.
Those were the days when you could understand a machine completely, inside out, software, hardware, EVERYTHING.
Sometimes I look at kids today, and I wonder...
Will I ever catch up?
Gustav
Well ok. Maybe I didn't MASTER it because I'm completly oblivious in all the new security/crypt libraries. But I am fully aware on how to use all the packages from JDK 1.1 (reflection, streams, networks, events, controls, you name it) and how to use the graphics libraries (Java2D) and Swing in JDK 1.4. In those three years, I learnt OOP and read a several books on Java so I'll know what to do if you guys have me a task or whatever. But guess what: I don't really use Java anymore, since 2 years, so I really can't say that I'm a master at it. Sorry I guess.
howdy,
i've been trying to program for about a year now, i'll never be a programmer but it's a hell of a lot of fun as a hobbie.
M.R.
I started programming when I was 13 (2 months before my 14th birthday), I'm 16 now.
I'm working as admin and as webdesigner to earn some extra money.
Started with HTML
JavaScript
CSS
Learned C++ (a half year later)
Started Perl programming (3 months later)
Learned PHP and SQL (a year ago)
Some Python, Delphi and Java
But I never learned Basic!!!
Yeah... Windows and Linux Programming
Apache, Network Administration........
Started to learn OpenGL 2 months ago.....
Currently interested in algorithms in C/C++ and OpenGL programming and of course networks and Linux!!!
Well since I started Comp Sci two years ago at University, the only thing I knew was some HTML, which I tought myself.
After two years, Ive learned some C, C++, Java, Prolog, Unix Shell Scripts, and a little assembly.
I started out programming with (WYSIWYG) HTML in June of 1999, if you can consider that programming, and then a few weeks I started teaching myself MSVB 5. My dad then got MS Visual Studio 6 pro. because he was thinking of learning VB 6 because he had lost his old job. After awhile of fooling around in VB6 I started learning QBasic for two reasons, first I wanted to understand basic because it was the foundation for VB. Secondly because I had found that VB does not support the inp/outp commands which I wanted to use to create a model train speed calculator (the original code was written back in 1989 in QBasic). Then I started trying to do graphics in QBasic but this was to restricted. In about 2000 I got a game programming kit. For awhile I didn't do much with it for a while because it was designed for c++ and the c++ tutorial (SAMS 'teach your self VC++ in 21 days') that came with the kit, but it didn't make any sense to me at that time. Some time early 2002 I got a c++ book from the library I tried learning from it, but it was not meant as an introductory to c++, so it did not help me. In July I finally tried to use the SAMS VC++ book but only got through the first week. Finally this school year I took an actual c++ course as part of my schoolwork. The book was based on outdated standards, but it had through instructions on some of the main theories of c++ programming. Finally in May of 2003 I joined CProgramming.com, and started using the additional information therein to further my knowledge of c++. So to put it simply I have been programming for a little under five years, which of course goes under the ‘over 4 years’ option.
-JLBShecky