The question also applies to students/newbies who are learning to program.
For me, 1.5 months, using C. :)
EDIT: "It's been so long, I can't remember" = more than 25 years.
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The question also applies to students/newbies who are learning to program.
For me, 1.5 months, using C. :)
EDIT: "It's been so long, I can't remember" = more than 25 years.
Probably 10-15 years here, from what I can remember.
5 years if you count HTML/Javascript/PHP. 4 years if you count VB. 3 years for C/C++/Java.
IMO you can't count writing `echo "myname is bob"` programming. If you could then I'd be able to count my use of DOS as programming...
I picked 20-25 years - I think I may have started more than 25 years ago, if we should be really picky, but I've worked as some sort of computer professional for the last 20+ years.
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10-15, although the first half of that was just at home or school.
4 Year for me.
Then I guess you cant count printf("my name is bob"); as programming either. Its possible to do some pretty sophisticated stuff with Javascript and PHP.Quote:
IMO you can't count writing `echo "myname is bob"` programming. If you could then I'd be able to count my use of DOS as programming...
If one goes back to when I first programmed, that would be AppleBASIC in senior year of high school, which would be 1984. :cry:
Since 1979 on a Commodore Vic-20. Yes, I got one before they hit the market, it was good to live in Peoria :)
So I guess I am the only little fish in this pond. :)
I'll post this poll again in a few years, when I've got more street cred. ;)
Hmm, had to think about it. The answer is 24 years, and that's counting when I started programming in C64 BASIC.
Lest you get the impression that I only wrote simple Hello World programs, I'll point out that the first time I was PAID for code that I wrote was in 1988, when I was 8 years old. So if you want to count from then, it's 21 years.
I gto paif $50 at age 10 to modify a program that displayed a christmas tree drawing to also print it out on a color printer. The manager of the local Radio Shcak paid me, I think mostly so he could use it as a demo of how easy it was to learn to program the TRS-80.