How old were you when you started programming?

[Maximation]

Inspired by a post in the General Discussion thread I posted the same question for us, the programming kids.

And with which language did you start and what was the first program you wrote you would call decent?

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

a bit of a useless Comment but, Never Got started

[spwath]

This summer is when i will start

[nj4ck]

t-minus a few weeks/months/years

[wjdobie]

When I was 17, about 3 months ago

I don't know whether it strictly counts but it was HTML, though to be honest at the moment I'm much better at taking somebodies stylesheet and making their website fancy rather than creating my own

[aricleather]

Programming? When I was eleven, my school bought two Raspberry Pi's and every lunch we'd go mess with Python. We had Arduino boards that we could do all sorts of neat stuff with. That people stopped coming, so the whole thing was kind of put off.

I don't really remember much, but I enjoyed doing it.

 

I made a webpage once in HTML, that's the last thing I did.

[givingtnt]

I started at 12 with some rpg and qbasic/visualbasic now im 16 turning 17

[MikeD]

I only started when I got into university. So 17 years old (am now 22).

Therefore, the first thing I could call decent is the project we did on our first programming class (Fundamentals of Programming), which was the mastermind game in Scheme (the GUI was provided by the teachers as it was not the focus of the project nor the class but we could add intelligence to the computer player for extra points).

[MrBucket101]

6th grade

 

I started programming in a subset of BASIC, on my TI-83+ that my parents bought me for school.

[wolfsinner]

I started when I was 7, or 8, not sure. I learned Python, initially with the purpose of taking part in problem solving competitions.

[Darkstar101]

With 5 years old I was compiling and running code in basic in windows 3.1 .

[BiFii]

My first words were " System.out.print("Hello World!"); "
My parents were confused but yeah.. I basically started programming when I was one and a half year old.

 

 

 

 

 

Kappa

I think I was 14 when I programmed a spam bot for "Metin 2". Don't judge!

[pgetsos]

Without counting HTML, and only talking about complete programs, last September

[step1041]

I'm almost 20 now, but i took my first class in grade 11 which would have been September 2010, so almost 4 years ago. We didn't do much then, just simple little games in VB6 (yes, programming games in a VB6 Windows form is possible).

[loganryan99]

Technically I was 8. There's a lot of people who say that and make it sound like they were actually writing complex programs and stuff, but I didn't even understand what a loop was at that point. I started with a language called Lua on a game called Roblox. When I really started to understand programming concepts was, I think, around 11. I started learning Java and I was old enough to understand the logic part of it, but was still limited by math.

 

Now I'm 14 and extremely passionate about programming. The hard work I've put in has made it possible for me to start working closely with LMG on the forum and some other projects. (If it sounds like I'm proud of myself for that, it's because I am )

[4xposed]

When I was 11 I learnt Basic one year before I started with Pascal (the only languages of which we had books at my local library) far more than a decade ago (closer to two decades than I would like admitting). Today I work at a tech company as a developer and use various languages (mainly Java, Python, Ruby and C#) depending on the project I'm working on.

[Stefan Schlögl]

15 i started with python and learned java this year. I think i'll try out c# when my new notebook arrives ^^

[Nuluvius]

When I was about 25 having had enough of blue collar work, I'm 30 now and work for a huge multi national corporation & freelance. Me and my family all have company private medical, I have the latest hardware, an expensive chair, I choose my own hours and work from home as and when it pleases me.

 

Software Engineering FTW.

[asquirrel]

I tried to learn around 15, Python.

 

I learned how to program at 17, in college, doing Java. The next year, at 18, I learned C. Finally programming made sense!

[Rheinwasser]

12 yeats

[wikilor]

the first time ever was at 12 when my father gave me my first arduino the main project that I developed back there was a version of Tic Tac Toe that would use the tv as screen and the playstation 2 remote to controll the X & O. after that I stopped for a bit and restarted learning c# the last christmas so that I would be able to write script for unity

[Harlan]

I tried to learn around 15, Python.

I learned how to program at 17, in college, doing Java. The next year, at 18, I learned C. Finally programming made sense!

Ha. Starting with anything but C seems odd.

I started with C at 18, then Java with bits of HTML, JS, and XML.

No pun intended

[FakezZ]

I started a little more than a year ago. I am turning 16 in 3 days  Started with C++, then a bit javascript and now I am screwing around with java.

[Flight1sim]

12 started with JavaScript now going to Python and eventually Java and C

[zhick]

I started programming when I was about 13 years of with a retail version of purebasic I picked up (well, I begged my father to buy it for me ) at a local supermarket (this sexy beast right here: http://www.purearea.net/pb/pics/PB_Versions/PB3-GameProgrammers.jpg). Did some HTML/JavaScript stuff before, but not much (mostly based on selfhtml).

Nowadays I mostly do Python/Java/C-stuff.