For the young ones...

[smh]

What made the younger people (as in people still in high school or younger) interested in programming so early on? I didn't start programming until I was 19 and in college.

[Edwin_Drood_1870]

Depression. *Sigh*

[HarryW]

Computer games, and curiosity.

[SteveCRM]

My parents signed me up for a computer class since I like games, and it taught VB(they didn't know that) and I loved it. The rest is history (okay about 3 years... )

I wanted to be like my dad .

Hehe..nah, I became interested when I was 12 because I really wanted to make computer programs for the computer..maybe sell them and become rich(er) someday .
Self-taught..learned when I was 13.

...still programming today.

[CyberSurfer]

I started about 3 years ago when they taught it in school, now I'm looking into programming as a career!

[smh]

Well, just for your for information. I went to high school in a town of 1000 people, and the only computers we had access to until my senior year were the old Apples with the DOS prompt. I suppose you have access to computers much earlier than I did. I still don't think I would have cared much about programming at such a young age. You must be well ahead of the rest of your class if you have the knowledge and patience to learn this so young.

[kovan]

porn..
o wait that got nothing to do with programming

me, it was the game TETRIS
played it on an old mac back in grade 8
and i was like "i have to learn how to make **** like this"

[paulw]

Hate to say it but Apple Macs can't run DOS - it's Mac OS

Cheers,

P.

[smh]

Ooops...

All I new how to do on those piles of junk was to practice my math skills with one of those old and boring programs you used in school and play that 'pong' game (I think that was what it was called). Plus, since we had so few of them at our school, we were limited to 15 minutes a day. Like anyone can get anything done on those things in 15 minutes! It took 5 minutes to load the program!

Don't know much else about them...


(That was WAY before I ever got interested in computers)

[Fox]

I often played SuperNES (especially Super Mario) and decided with my friend to start making games on the computer. We didnt know anything for 1 full year (we took a computer course when we were 12 and learned how to create the famous "end"-buttons ) but we were playing around in VB4... well after that year someone tols us how tu use WinG but in fact it was a BitBlt demo *hehe*

But Im still learning tricks from time to time, the last thing was that I should use ReleaseDC instead of DeleteDC... you cant know everything *smile*

[HarryW]

And there was me thinking you knew everything Fox I told someone else to use ReleaseDC only a few weeks ago

*Grins*

*Looks smug*

I'm not young, either in years or experience, but MY first
experience was with Fortran.

At UNM (in 78) the only printer was a high-speed printer
behind a glass wall at one end and a large garbage can at
the other end (about 30 feet away).

You had to have a password to logon. Someone had left
their logon and a problem statement: How many form feeds
will it take to send the first of the fan-fold paper from
the printer to the garbage can?

The answer was 39. It took me three tries.


DerFarm

[smh]

You started programming just before I was born, DerFarm. With how much I have learned just in the last year, I can't even imagine how much you have picked up in the last 22 years!

Well, ***shyly ducking head and moving feet** in reality,
most of what I learned is non-existant today.

360JCL, SimPas, 6502ASM, MacroII, Turtle, Interpreters,
RepFort, and some others I can't even remember.


I coulda been chasing women. I coulda been chasing
Barrk....

[marnitzg]

My dad started teaching me how to program when I was 8. Mainly because I wanted to programme a game I liked (I think it Formula 1 GP the first version). All that stuff is useless now (Fortran, cobal, clarion, Turbo pascal).

[barrk]

I don't know...I'm pretty hard to catch..unless I want to be caught! ;-)

[Cybrg641]

My dad brought home VB6 and C++ one time when I was 14. And ever since then I have been stuck to the computer. When I get out of high school, I plan to move to Chicago, USA and get a job there and also go to college there.

I used to want to be in the military, but lately, I have realized that it is not for me at all. I would, however, like to work for the CIA or the FBI later in my career.

[parksie]

I don't know...I'm pretty hard to catch..unless I want to be caught! ;-)

Hehehe. More opportunities to chase you, then

I started on BASIC on a BBC B when I was 6 (1989), and made some fairly nifty stuff. I moved onto C (originally on an Acorn Archimedes) in 1993, and started on DOS C++ in 1995.

And been programming ever since

DerFarm - I loved turtle...may it rest in peace