How many teenaged programmers?

[Jamiex]

Im a teenager...............oh and i try to program

[timeshifter]

I'm... damnit, not a teenager anymore. But I get paid to program

[kregg]

I'm a teenager. However due to my years of code abuse, I can't get paid.

[LA.Rhodes]

I am pretty sure I was a teenager once in land faraway and time long forgotten.
I still haven't actually grown up, I just got older.
1982 I bought my first computer, Commodore 64 .. no disk drive just a few magazines with basic code in them spend 2 to 3 hours typing in the code and debugging your typos and the run the game till your eyes started to bleed on to your desk. I lovingly refer to this as the amoeba mode. I was hooked on basic, and then thought I wanted to learn Assembly, ( I started all this at the tender age of 30 ) I write a lot of vba for my job, not that they pay me for it, but it makes my life easier. I have been learning VB6 the hard way, read a little write a little kinda like the old days typing code in from a mag doesn't seem like the way to learn basic .. but I did I aced my first basic language class in community college. Have I made any money a little, very little but I still love to program. I do envy all of you that had the chance to polish your coding skills at such a young age, it simply means you will have a lot more time to figure out that killer piece of code that will make you the next Bill and if you do. spend some of the money and get a decent doo, Bill you really need to do something with your hair man.

"There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary. And those that don't"
"Computer junkies never die, they just upload."

[timeshifter]

I just found out my first computer was a 386... oh the memories...

[shadowgreg]

Hey I have been on a computer since i was extremely young (Commodore 64), then upgraded to an ameega 500, by the time i was 13 i was coding Q Basic on a 486 which i bought with my barmitzvah money (over $3000 AUS) in 1996, moved onto using Sausages Hotdog to develop webpages, played games online over dial up modems (warcraft, red alert, duke 3d) progressed with technology went on to modify xbox consoles, develop in vb, did a certificate in network administration, did a degree in I.T. with a major in software development. Now im 23 and mastered over 10 languages, learnt database administration, web portal administration, web development, network engineering (including learning new technologies regularly) working for a private equity hedge fund as a c#.NET developer. As a developer i doubt ill ever have to stop learning new things.

[zaza]

Congratulations.

[timeshifter]

What? did I have a post deleted? Was it that offensive? Can it get PM'd to him?

[kregg]

Knowing you, I'd thought you'd say something silly enough to get your post removed. After all, you are g00nware.

[grilkip]

my barmitzvah money (over $3000 AUS)

Where is my barmitzvah money?

[kregg]

He got it from eBay. Buy your money... only on eBay!

[Shinyrockz]

Well im 19 so that still makes me a teen
i try to program
its my 3rd year in college and hmm i still have a slow pace learning things

[timeshifter]

19, third year in college? Slow pace learning? That doesn't add up.

[kregg]

Oh it does add up alright. You just got adblock on, so you can't see it.

[Pac_741]

Well, i'm 14 and i'm a Winforms, and wpf developer, and a GUI designer, i've had opportunities of making money but the people i've worked with, refuses to finish the projects. So yeah I started with visual basic, then i moved on to C#, with winforms and then i moved on with WPF, which is what i do best.

I got my own we page, check it out is in my signature.

[bagstoper]

Hi,

I was wondering how many teenaged programmers are out there and if any of you are currently making any money programming right now.

Also, what languages/technologies do you know and how did you get started?

Thanks.......

I am a 15 year old programmer and i first learned about programing when i was like 9 years old. i wanted to make a program so i asked my dad what to do and he told me what controls where what and how they worked. i dragged a picture box onto my form and a button. he told me that i could make the picture disappear by double clicking the button. so i did and he told my to type in picturebox1.visible= false so i did. then he showed me how to run the program by clicking the start button. when the form popped up i clicked the button and i found that the picture box disappeared. At the time that was the coolest thing i had done. 6 years later here i am typing this up and trying to finish a much harder project. I have worked on many projects and i am mostly self taught. this year was the first year that i took a programing class. i was the only freshman in a junior and senior class. i asked to be put in there because i didn't want to wait till i was a junior to take it. i show the programing teacher what i had done by myself and she was amazed. i have only sold two projects one was a snake game i made in 7th grade. i sold it to a classmate for 5 bucks. the other was a working business application. that one i sold to a realty company for $100. The first program i wrote was written in visual basic 6. the second was written in visual basic 2008.

[fnixha]

hi i'am 14 i have started whith litle batch and now i am using visual basic 6.0 but i am still learning ...

Have a nice day to all

[timeshifter]

hi i'am 14 i have started whith litle batch and now i am using visual basic 6.0 but i am still learning ...

Have a nice day to all

I used to be a teenager... then I stopped using VB6...

[EntityX]

Once upon a time I was a teenager. I don't think I'm still a teenager now though. I wonder how that happened.

[EntityX]

When I was a senior in high school I took a class in Fortran at Pasadena City College. Does that give anything away? At the start of the class we used punch cards and then graduated to monitors and keyboards.

[mendhak]

I was never a pimply, acne-ridden teenager; I was born this age.

Benjamin Button's idea was stolen from me, except that I was born old and I'm growing older.

[BillGeek]

I used to be a teenager... then I stopped using VB6...

Yeah yeah. One day you'll regret that decision. (Just kidding, no need to start a war...)

[timeshifter]

Yeah... it would seem I've upgraded to JavaScript...

[Kasracer]

I started programming in VB6 when I was 12. I then moved to Html / Xhtml / Css / JavaScript before turning to C++ when I was 16. Fun stuff. I only made a little bit of money on the side and never really got professional until about 20.

[nemaroller]

This thread scares me. It has been alive near nigh 10 years now (which is funny since I thought most of the threads and user accounts got wiped out back in early 2000).

Every time you think it has disappeared for good, somebody finds it again, and decides to post it.

[chris128]

haha i was just thinking that when I saw that the original post was posted in 1999 ! :|

[EntityX]

I had no idea this thread was that old. That means that all the teenagers that were posting at the start of this thread are no longer teenagers. Not a one.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

Yes indeedy, they has all grown up.

[CoachBarker]

I've often thought it would be nice to be a teenager again, oh the changes I would make. The big decision when I was in HS was whether or not the HS was going to switch over to the new electric typewriters my junior year (typing class was mandatory). I feel for all you that started doing this at such an early age since I waited to learn at 45. Oh to have all this knowledge back then.

[arunb]

I'm 16 and started off on my Comadore 64 programming BASIC. A couple years later I learned HTML and then VB. I'm currently trying to learn VC++. I've never made any money though.

Hey, I'm 13.63<g>, been programming since I was 7 in the old TRS-80 days. Started with BASIC, then QBasic, then HTML/JScript/DHTML, VB, then on to C++

I am not sure, but isn't the commodore 64 and TRS -80 extremely obsolete ??? Also such computers may not be easily available...even 5 years ago..

Are these posts facts...???

[timeshifter]

School budgets... I took a VB6 programming class five years ago, despite the existence of .NET...

[RaZeR]

I'm 13, so i'm a teenager
I started programming when i was 11, i started with VB.NET 2008, and now i know VB6 and VB.NET, but i'm still learning

[Pac_741]

It's amazing to see how many teenagers are in to programming.

[kleinma]

School budgets... I took a VB6 programming class five years ago, despite the existence of .NET...

In 1997 when I was in high school, we got to use 1983 GW Basic running on DOS, despite the existence of Windows

[chris128]

I was 21 last week so not quite a teenager any more

[EntityX]

You've got one foot in the grave man.

[chris128]

haha its true, perhaps I should pre-order a walking stick

[kleinma]

you write computer software.. i don't see where walking comes into play. All you need is a butt pillow

[Psyrus]

You've got one foot in the grave man.

I was a teenager 20 years ago.

[chris128]

you write computer software.. i don't see where walking comes into play. All you need is a butt pillow

Haha I actually do stick a pillow on my chair and sit on that sometimes... perhaps thats a sign that I spend too long sat at a computer