Poll: How old were you when you started to learn programming?
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Nick Karnik

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Poll: How old were you when you started to learn programming?

Publish Date: Feb 19 '18
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I would like to know when you first started to learn programming, how old you were, and what your first programming language was.

Please take a short survey via Google Forms. I will post the stats overlaying the three data points when responses are closed.

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Comments 7 total

  • Ben Halpern
    Ben HalpernFeb 19, 2018

    I didn't get serious about software development until much later, but Geocities was my intro to the craft when I was around 13.

    • Max Cerrina
      Max CerrinaFeb 19, 2018

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    • Nick Karnik
      Nick KarnikFeb 19, 2018

      Woot! Good old Geocities!

      In case anyone is on a quest to excavate their site off Geocities, here's the archive: oocities.org/. Sadly, I can't recall my username :|.

  • Frank Carr
    Frank CarrFeb 19, 2018

    I guess it depends on what exactly you would define as "coding".

    The first programs I wrote were in an Introduction to Computer Science class I took in college in 1978 when I was 20. They were in BASIC and Fortran and ran on a Control Data Cyber mainframe timeshare. I also got to write some Apple BASIC programs on the school's Apple II computer.

    However, about 10 years before that, I learned how to use a slide rule, a type of mechanical analog computer. (There was a little thing called the "space race" on at that time and I was really into it.) So, that might be considered where I first learned to code.

  • Antonio Radovcic
    Antonio RadovcicFeb 20, 2018

    Coded some basic QBasic/VB/HTML in the late 90ties (~13 y.o.).
    Then lots of years I stopped pursuing it, since I thought you need to be good at math, which I wasn't.
    Then in Uni while studying Design we did lots of projects with Java/Processing, which got the coding started again (~26 y.o.).
    But it wasn't until 28ish, when I really began to learn "proper" (as in JS) programming at my job, as just HTML/CSS wasn't sufficient anymore.

  • Alexandru Bucur
    Alexandru BucurFeb 20, 2018

    I think my 'real' script was when I was around 15-16 years old and I started coding a small python game with an online friend for a while.
    Until then I played with a lot of random PHP cms's and did some HTML work here and there (long live IE 6 our true lord and master)

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