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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Mats
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. ;)
i hate youQuote:
Originally Posted by zacs7
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.
Is that a typo? What kind of program would someone pay an 8 year old to write?Quote:
Originally Posted by brewbuck
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by cpjust
Heh, I have to wonder if it handled vowels, "th", and "sh" properly. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by brewbuck
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.
It's been a while, obviously, but I think it did. I can't even remember what the rule for that is, now.Quote:
Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom
$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? ;)
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
I didn't even have an etch a sketch when I was 8, let alone a computer! :(
7 Years.
Almost 3 professionally and the rest as "hobby".
Almost 3 years.
Learn ASM, Then C, Then Java, Then C++
3 years if you include HTML. Otherwise, since the beginning of last semester. :P
Good to see another newbie. :)
We're a rare breed here.
11 months.
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 .
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 ^^
What type of game is it? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Akkernight
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
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10 years if you count HTML/Javascript/PHP. 8 years if you count VB. 6 years for C/C++/Java.Quote:
Originally Posted by cyberfish
:D :D :D