Thread: What age you started our interest in programming

8 or 9. My first program was copied out of a book i borrowed from the local library. It was a guessing number game on my nice Amstrad Thats about 10 years ago now. I was always interested in computers since i first used them. Dunno why.

I started programming about three years ago when I was 16, and it was in Visual Basic, then I stopped for about a year, then I started C++ in the university, when I was about 18... I'm now becomming 19 and I'm still programming in C++, I like it very much...

well... considering the fact that I didn't really play with a computer until I was about 16... I didn't even know that I could program... so.. I guess about 18 or so.. that was 5 years ago... I'd say I've learned a lot in 5 years...

I've always been interested in computers... I did some BASIC stuff when I was like 8, but didn't really do anything else until I took Pascal in 10th grade.

I'd really like to see some older members' replies, especially those that didn't have the benefit of always having a PC around.

I was around 8 or so. My GATE class (a weekly class for smart people) did a little with basic on some apple IIs. I don't recall having gotten much beyond the print command back then, though.

Don't know, really.

I was fiddling with writeln very early on an old Pascal compiler, if you call that programming.

I was Charles Babbage in a previous life.......

I invented the abacus in a past life - what's your point?

Well, I always considered computers as nothing more than a versatile calculator with a color display (that was when I was 10ish and my family had gotten our first computer, a laptop).

The more I used computers the more I learned about them, I got a CD full of "shareware games", man, all the stuff I learned from trying to install loads of buggy and poorly designed games.

Then one day(actually over a period of several days) I read the users guide to the toshiba laptop, front to back (almost). From then on I did more and more with the computer, I picked up HTML after a while (11-12?). After a while I decided I must learn a programming language so that I may be able to create programs that can control this beast I have for so long faught. I ran around a little, looking at various options, then I found that the command line compiler from Borland was free so I picked that up, along with some dummy books, and started coding.
I moved on to the Borland compiler (the GUI one) and then to DevC++ when I started to want to take over peoples screens.

here I am now! 15

Did some, I think Basic, in the late 70's, but didn't get more involved till early-mid 90's, more serious in late 90's.
Can remember when there was no WWW, and WAIS was going to be the next big thing. Gopher, Archie, etc...