View Poll Results: how long have you been programming?

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  • < 3 months

    2 4.08%
  • 3 - 6 mths

    1 2.04%
  • 6 - 12

    3 6.12%
  • 1 - 2 yrs

    2 4.08%
  • 2 - 3

    3 6.12%
  • 3 - 5

    9 18.37%
  • 5 - 10

    14 28.57%
  • 10 - 15

    6 12.24%
  • 15 - 20

    3 6.12%
  • 20 - 25 yrs

    5 10.20%
  • It's been so long, I can't remember

    1 2.04%

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    Quote Originally Posted by brewbuck View Post
    It was an English-to-Pig Latin translator written in C64 BASIC. I submitted it to a kid's science magazine, and they printed it and sent me a check for $100.
    Heh, I have to wonder if it handled vowels, "th", and "sh" properly.
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    Wrote my first line of code in 1982: BASIC on a 10 mghrtrz IBM PC. It booted from a 5 1/4" diskette. After that, it was REXX in '86. Then, I went straight to assembler in '88.
    Mainframe assembler programmer by trade. C coder when I can.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom View Post
    Heh, I have to wonder if it handled vowels, "th", and "sh" properly.
    It's been a while, obviously, but I think it did. I can't even remember what the rule for that is, now.
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    //try
    //{
    	if (a) do { f( b); } while(1);
    	else   do { f(!b); } while(1);
    //}

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    $50 & $100 was worth more then than now.

    The question is: what mischief can a 10 & 8 year old get to with that sort of money?
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    Holy ........! o.o I didn't even have a PC at that age! Only consoles :P And using computers back in the 80's must've been horrible o.o the computers were slow! You couldn't even play Crysis back then! o.o
    Currently research OpenGL

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    I didn't even have an etch a sketch when I was 8, let alone a computer!
    "I am probably the laziest programmer on the planet, a fact with which anyone who has ever seen my code will agree." - esbo, 11/15/2008

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    7 Years.

    Almost 3 professionally and the rest as "hobby".
    Woop?

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    Almost 3 years.
    Learn ASM, Then C, Then Java, Then C++

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    3 years if you include HTML. Otherwise, since the beginning of last semester. :P

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    Good to see another newbie.

    We're a rare breed here.
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    11 months.

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    i started C++ learning on my own just in the past summer!
    before that i'd read the stephan pratas C prim > ( the first edition !! 2 years ago , just before pointers... after a while , i saw that i cant just go pick up everything! and master them , better stick to one thing and master it. )
    and 3 years a go i learned some basics about pascal!
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    6 years ago, i started to learn HTML and basic! , but 6 months after that, i forgot about them,
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    so im a newbie ! in programming .
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    Well, I started C++ more than a year ago, but lost interest 'cause I just couldn't figure stuff out (I had only learn the very basics back then, but I didn't know xP) then half a year later, I got interested in programming again, and decided to take a differen't approach, and went for Visual Basic, and then when I'd learn some stuff about general programming, and had gotten more mature, got back to C++ (This exactly one year later than I started C++ for the first time, it was in start of winter or end of autumn... And now I'm making a game, so proud ^^
    Currently research OpenGL

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    Quote Originally Posted by Akkernight View Post
    And now I'm making a game, so proud ^^
    What type of game is it?
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    Ping Pong, and it's kinda finished xD Just don't know where to post it on here o.o since no peeps post projects on the Projects and Job Recruitment, and I havn't found any other good forum, so maybe I should just post in game forum, but it's for questions... Meh, the mods can move if I post it in the wrong place
    Currently research OpenGL

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