How many teenaged programmers?

[Dim]

Damn this thread has been up for a while and i still haven't posted. Sooo...
I'm 17, started with vb3 2 years ago and haven't stoped learning since.

Laterz,
D!m

[Emo]

Hey,
I'm 15 and I've been programming since I was 13. I started with VB4 and now I'm up to VB6. I will get started with VC++ in a little bit, I just want to mess with VB for a little while longer!
No, I haven't made any money from programming , but I'm hopeing I will soon!

P.S. I became a member because of this threat! I just have to be a part of it!
-Emo

[Klass]

Interesting to see how many folks started off programming young.

I've been programming since the age of 9 and am 18 now. That's a total of 9 years! I've made a lot of stuff that I'm now living off of including my own programming language for Database and web development.

Cheers!

[parksie]

I'm 17, and first started learning BASIC on a BBC B when I was 6. I began getting the hang of C when I was 11, and 4 years ago we bought our first PC, and I started VB at 15. I got into C++ about a year and a bit ago. Anyone else start that young?

I didnt start at 6, but I did start at around 11~12

[kovan]

i been programming since 15(holy chicken balls, thats a long time), never relized it been that long
yet i didn't do any real programming til i was about 18
so i am 20 now
been programming for 2 years i guess

got my own software company (dont make crap off that, but i like doing that for fun)
i work for a electric company, cleaing their messed up db
i make web pages for clients on the side
and i just signed a contract with a IT company to have their website designed
SWEET MONEY

little tip for youngsters
keep programming, i promise you it will pay off
o if it doesnt, you end up not getting a job
well thats just to bad, cus i will be in barbados enjoying the sun, while you suffer

damn that came out outloud

but seriously, eventually money will come in
*me prays this other deal goes throu, worth almost 60 K*
happy programming

[Flash d:)]

im 14 and I know vb6 and html. I dont make money but I will once I finish this game im makeing.

[ComputerWiz6996]

I learned HTML when I was about 12, on the old computers at my school. They were not connected to the network so they were unlocked so I could save my work. I have made money because I made my friends WebPages. The WebPages took me about a total of 6 months. It had over 500 pages, totaling over 15MB in just HTML. Almost all the artwork to was handmade, and there was probably a good 30MBs of artwork there...

I am just starting to learn VB6. It has been quite a trip so far...

As for school stuff... I almost made it in to the library as the server operator at my middle school. Now in high school, the tech person (he has no actual job title, go figure...) complete ignores me... Finally I confronted him about it; he said I wasn't smart enough to run the school security. I told him to leave me in the room for five minutes with the computer so I could break into it. He agreed to it, after the five minutes, he came back in, and I had changed almost all the preferences on the computer, deleted some garbage, and installed Quake 2 off a disk that was in my back pack, and had printed his user-name and password, the principals, and a list of all the team leaders stuff. When he saw all of it, he freaked out, shredded the stuff I printed, changed all of the passwords I printed, and said that he fixed the security so I couldn't do that again, even though all he did was change the passwords and uninstall Quake 2. I was banned from all school computers for 2 weeks, then when I got back on, I deleted the security program off the main server with a prog I made in VB6.0...

[Edited by ComputerWiz6996 on 12-29-2000 at 10:01 PM]

Well I'm not quite a teenager anymore, I just turned 21. I've only been programming about 1 or 2 years. I guess you could say i know a little bit about a lot of things. I have the problem of starting to learn something and then going on to something else before i'm finished.
The languages I know best are:
--Informix 4GL
--HTML
--Visual Basic
I am currently in the process of learning Perl, C\C++, and i've dabbled a little with Java.
As of know I am working for a company writing 4GL programs and doing a little bit of web design.

[nukem996]

yo im 13. I know HTML(a little not that great), vb(great), and c++(just started but i know all the basics and did all the 1st programs). been programing since i was 8. my dad helped me alot he works at IBM. he told me what to learn and got me all these books. right now im working no a media player. i made some other programs and thier on my site, but. i havnt updated my site since i was 10. but people keep hitting it. i hope to become a rich robotic enginer.

15, visual basic, html, asp, batch, basic (not much any more) and it is quite easy to make money with your programs, visit http://www.radiate.com

i started BASIC at 7 im now 16 and program in VB6.0 and i get paid
I might have a go at VC++ soon.

[paulw]

I'm not a teenager but if you divide my age by two I would only be 17! Four people older than me made me feel a lot better - it is quite a shock to find out how young some of you guys are!

Still, how many of you have found the right girl, got some great kids and paid off the mortgage? It's not all bad being old.

Cheers,

P.

Hi! I'm now 15. I started programming when I was 11, just a few lines of QBASIC, then I got into batch files and Pascal. Now I can do all sorts:
VB
QBASIC
Java
HTML
ASP
JavaScript
VBScript
CSS1
Pascal
C++
etc.
If there's NE1 Interested in joining me in a freeware/ shareware company go to this thread:
http://forums.vb-world.net/showthread.php?postid=195386
Later.

[shragel]

I am A teen programes and i do make alot of money because a sold my first program for a large company for almost nothing (under $4000)
And later got ref. to other companies where i charge full price.
Good luck to EVERYONE

[Kzin]

Originally posted by RoyceWindsor1
I'm twenty-three now, but I learned to program early in my teens. If you want my advice, start with C++.
It is the most popular language which is TRULY object-oriented, and learning it will give you the fundamentals to work with many other tools.
If you start with something like visual basic, you will
DEFINATELY pick up bad habits which will hamper you working in more sophisticated languages later

- John

[Edited by RoyceWindsor1 on 04-22-2000 at 02:00 PM]

I've got to agree with RoyceWindsor1 on this one - start with the hard stuff (C++) if you are smart then move back to the easy stuff. Its a bit like those martial arts things where you start prancing around with a sack of cement on your back or practice fast moves in water and then can *amaze* people withg how good you are when you take the weights off

Seriously - I've taught programming in college and I can tell you that it is really difficult to lose bad habits -

[VBD]

Hi Im Dan. I program in VB and QBasic. I am 11 and have created a wireframe control which can be found in the thread cheap 3-D under Games & Graphics Programming

[phreeze]

i'm 14
i first stated in HTML then i moved onto VB then off to QBasic and then C. once i laerned C basicz i started working on UNIX and then i got into computer security. im currently learning ASM
and no im not making money off of anything i do
i want to though

[abdul]

Hi, I am 15 and I started learning QBAISC aout 1 year ago. Then I moved on to visual basic. Now, I am learning and programming in C\C++. I dont think that I will be able to make money for next few months because I am not so much expert at any of the programming language

[denniswrenn]

I've already posted here, but....

I'm 14 and know

• HTML
• JavaScript
• ASP(VBScript and learning PerlScript)
• PHP
• C/C++(UNIX/Win32 Console/Windows GUI)
• Visual Basic
• Python
• SQL
• Java(Just a little bit)
• DOS Batch
• TI-Basic(83/89)
• Perl

I started learning ASM quite a while ago, but stopped because I wanted to finish learning C/C++(For the most part, I've finished, I still need to learn things like Nested Templates, Tree's, and need to brush up on Inheritance). It would be nice to learn XML/XHTML, but it just looks like too much of a pain in the ass.

[Edit: Forgot to add Perl to the list]

[parksie]

I never posted a full list either, so here's mine:

• C
• C++
• Visual Basic
• BBC Basic
• Perl
• PHP
• Java
• SQL
• HTML
• JavaScript

Also, programming for the Win32 GUI in most of those languages (the ones that let you, duh...)

[goudabuddha]

Hey ya'll, I'm 13 and I've been programming for a couple years, although I haven't been doing it real seriously until lately. I started at VB4 and now I'm at VB6, although I'm still learning. I know HTML and a very small bit of Java. By the end of the year I hope to have at least started on ASM, and my friend and I are writing our own programming language right now. I'm not sure about learning VC++ yet, though...is it worth it? I mean, is it a valuable language to know? Seems quite complicated to me...

[parksie]

Don't bother learning ASM if you haven't been through a lower level language than VB already - you'll have a VERY hard time.

*sigh*

VC++ is an IDE/compiler. C++ is the language, and it may be complicated but it's still pretty much the standard because it whoops everything else for power and flexibility.

[goudabuddha]

I find that ASM thing hard to believe because my friend is learning it and he says it's real easy to pick up.

[abdul]

C++ was developed after ASM for more easy understanding. Why not just pick a standard language which is C++? Windows is written in C\C++ - not ASM (I believe that some parts like bootstraps were written is ASM). C++ is also easier than ASM.

[parksie]

I don't think C was directly after assembler, but it serves that purpose. C++ is targetted very differently than C, because C source is very tightly linked to the outputted object code. C++ has a lot more inserted by the compiler.

[abdul]

But their basic syntax is the same

[nabeels786]

im 15. i started programming with basic when i was 12. then i learned VB (been doing that for 2 years).

i stopped windows programmign for a while and started doing web development/programming/design. still do it.

im working as a vb programmer forphilips research (the USA division, the only one in the US)

making some good money. now they hired me for longer..so im gonne werk @ home for them during the school year.

finally getting up off of my ass and continuing with c++ (left off at pointers)

[list=a][*]vb[*]basic (i think i forgot it though)[*]html[*]javascript[*]c++ (limited tho)[*]perl[*]asp[*]php[/list=a]

[parksie]

That was the idea of C++. However I often revert back to C if I don't need all the features of C++ (I can often get by with a struct and some helper functions rather than a class) - you'd be surprised how much simpler it is to write sometimes.

Hmm...web development vs. Windows development. I'm not really sure which one is the best at the moment; I used to think web was a poor cousin of "real" computer programs, but I'm not so sure now.

[nabeels786]

Originally posted by Benjamin
Our school runs novell, not even worth breaking into....
they supposedly block access to the C drive,
it's not in the my computer folder, but all you have to do is right click, and select "create shortcut" and for the path type C:\

and that way, you can access everything in the HDD.....
in my last year of school, I might think about really breaking into it.... and then maybe changing everything around, so the teachers can't do anything, but the students can do everything... hehehe... currently it's the other way around... we can't even access internet explorer, only netscape
but fortunatly the computer I use has some security problems, and I can use it..... I hate netscape...

open my computer and in the address bar type the URL. voila IE.

novell is pretty each to screw with.

[parksie]

How old was that post?!?!?!

Dennis hasn't posted under that name for months!

[nabeels786]

me?

[Sc0rp]

I haven't posted a list either, so here goes:

• Visual Basic
• QuickBasic
• JavaScript
• HTML\XHTML\XML
• DOS Batch
• Pascal (unfortunately this is what we learn in school )
• Delphi
• C\C++ (still learning)

And that's about it.

[JungleMan]

I'm 15 and I know a little bit of VB.

But I can justify that because I'm pretty good in Javascript

[billfaceuk]

15 and I do VB.

I know some sucky languages though like
HTML
Javascript
ActionScript
VBScript
etc etc.

[prog_tom]

Oh and I'm 12. I think I'm the TOP 10 in ages from 1 to 20

[beachbum]

Originally posted by prog_tom
Oh and I'm 12. I think I'm the TOP 10 in ages from 1 to 20

Waits quietly for the response to this one ... reminds me of the FarSide comic.... bummer of a birth mark Hal.

[barrk]

I've heard that every 5 out of 4 people have trouble with fractions.

[filburt1]

There are three people in this world: those who can count, and those who can't.

Filburt: How many digits are in Pi?
Hal: There are an infinite number of digits in pi.

Damn he's smart.

[etoo]

Here's how I started programming:

One day, I was alone and had nothing to do so I started using my father's old P100 and looking at the Windows 95 disk.

After playing the two stupid videos and that horrible game Hover, I came across the QBasic program. I then tried copying the programs from a 20 year old BASIC book. Most of them I had to change to work.

I used QBasic for about 3 years and then got VB.

Then, in 1998, I spent my savings and got a PII 350.

And then in 2000, I sold my computer and built myself a PIII 733 EB, which is what I use currently.

Then, in 2001, I tried posting a program to my old internet site.

I was very surprised at how many people downloaded it and now I make program and put them on my internet site @ www.digitope.com.

I have only made pocket change from my programs.