How old when you learnt ?!

[mad-onion]

I am interested in how old people were when they learnt there first programming langauge?
What was it?
And anything else like this that might be interestiing!.

Here is mine:
I learnt some language on my Amstrad when i was like 10, dont know what it was called.
Learnt VB at 12.
HTML at 11-12
Perl at 13
PHP at 13
JavaScript at 14
MySQL at 15
English at not yet...lol

15 now and im still learning.

Cheers

[Aidan Bahta]

HTML: 11-12
BASIC: 13
JavaScript: 14
PHP: 15 (in progress now)
MySQL: 15 (also in progress)
C++: Next spring/summer

15 and still learning

[Nicky]

HTML hadn't been invented when I was twelve!!!

But I vaguely remember writing a strange version of hangman on my spectrum 48k when I was about 12.

[Son Nguyen]

Started learning:
Pascal: about 14
Java,PHP,Perl: less than a year, 18
19 and stop learning!!!

[Owen]

HyperCard when I was 10 or so (actually made some money selling programs over AOL... before the web), HTML when I was 13 or 14, Perl 16, C++ 17, Java 18.

Owen

[James]

Basic - 8 or so
HTML - 11
VB - 12-13
ASP - 12-13
PHP - 13-14
SQL - 13 (I didn't start with MySQL but with MS SQL Server)

14 now, hoping to learn C(++) sometime late next year.

[PeterW]

QBASIC - cant remember.. a long long time ago
and then I took a rather unconventional turn from basic to assembly after discovering a learning program called bas2asm or similar.
I was proficient in assembly by about 15.
Pascal - 10
C - 13
HTML - 12 (does HTML count though ?)
PHP - 15
Perl 14
C++ - 90% proficient now


I have really only just started dabling in SQL in the last year or so.
I am also quite fascinated by reverse engineering and byte code etc.. so this takes up quite a bit of time..

hehe 16 and getting bored of learning

Another1.. could this have been `Locomotive Basic` ? I learnt that before qbasic I think... cant remember.

Of course I have used some of the client side scripting languages like JavaScript, dhtml et al, but I dont really like them

Languages I use regularly are..
Asm (with masm32 by Steve Hutchesson)
C/C++ (MS VC++ 5)
PHP (php-4.0.3pl1)
Perl (5)

[aspen]

I just gotta say that alot of you young people are much better off now adays.

Easier access to a computer, access to the internet, and all that.

I made my first webpage when I was 13. So I didn't learn html till 13. This was of course around 7 years ago.

Before that I had messed around alot on QBasic. I didn't make anything complicated, just some little fake programs to impress people. The biggest one was maybe 1000 lines.

[prequel]

nothing but basic html - 21 yrs of age

i never even owned a pc until 4 - 5 yrs ago ... i wish i started sooner

[Son Nguyen]

Same here! I wish I were into these stuff sooner.
Interesting enough, I even hate coding/programming for about 3 years!

[JohnM]

HTML 11
Got Computer 11
VB 12
VBScript 12
ASP 12-13
SQL 13
PHP 13
Learning Perl 14

Want to learn Perl and C++

[JohnM]

I didn't get a home computer till 2 years ago

[TWTCommish]

I had one, and learned HTML on some of the family's computers...I bought my own over a year and a half ago...that's when I really got into this stuff.

HTML > Roughly 12 (stuck on that for a LONG TIME!)
CSS > Just learned the basics at arond 14
Perl > Just the basics...between 15 and 16
PHP > 16 (still an intermediate)
JavaScript > 16...still getting ot hte advanced aspects of it.

I don't know what's next - I've got a book on Java, and am trying to get my head around it. I figure being familiar with JavaScript and OOP is important, first. What I really need is enough time to sit down and test out some code.

My problem is I learn through necessity - I learned HTML because I knew I'd have to do build websites...I learned PHP/SQL (God Bless you, Kevin Yank) because I knew my sites, loaded with articles and such, would need to run off of a database at some point.

[Aidan Bahta]

Originally posted by Owen
HyperCard when I was 10 or so (actually made some money selling programs over AOL... before the web), HTML when I was 13 or 14, Perl 16, C++ 17, Java 18.

Owen

Hypercard is a programming lang? I remember using it...then it turned into HyperStudio, right?

[sbdi]

isnt hypercard the thing on macs? it started html off i think well it started something off. i thought it was something like paint where you made stacks

[pedro_gb]

HTML 11
HTML 12
HTML, QBasic, PHP, JavaScript, SQL 13
HTML, QBasic, PHP, JavaScript, SQL 14

then I'm planning to

HTML, QBasic, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, C++ 15

I already know a tiny bit of C++, though.

[Aidan Bahta]

Originally posted by sbdi
isnt hypercard the thing on macs? it started html off i think well it started something off. i thought it was something like paint where you made stacks

I used HyperCard on a mac long long ago. I do know that it evolved into HyperStudio, and that is on both mac and PC.

[Daniel]

BASIC: 7 yrs old
C: 9 yrs old
Logo: 11 yrs
Visual Basic: 11 yrs old
C++: 12 yrs old
Assembler: 14 yrs old
HTML: 14 yrs old
Pascal: 15 yrs old
Perl: 15 yrs old
DB programming/SQL: 15 yrs old
PHP: 16 yrs old

[Owen]

HyperCard is a programing/visual interface. You make buttons and fields then add programming elements to them. A VERY powerful and easy way of writing fairly simple to medium complex programs.

For example, the game Myst was written in Hypercard. And yes, HyperCard was written by Apple.

Owen

[Nicky]

Maybe instead of learning to program when you were 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You guys need to get out more! No offence meant but I think if I had kids I would LOVE for them to become proficient on a PC but there is more to work experience than knowing programming langauges. I would fear a child who can program before they are 10. Children need to go out and interact with other children and play with GI Joe and Pokemon!

[TWTCommish]

G.I. Joe? Yes.
Pokemon? <shiver>

Yeah, I should probably get out a little bit more, but I'm not a hermit or anything - I have no problem going outside...but honestly, what's the point?

I think most programmers have a reasonable balance - they get plenty done and work maybe a tad more than they should, but they don't cut themselves off from the world and don't have any major problems because of it.

[Nicky]

Chris, I know it is unfair to generalise, but believe me, most programmers are geeks!

I work in the Computing Department of a large Unviersity (in fact fifth largest in the UK), and you want to see the computing students!

Granted they are getting better than 5 years ago but there is a stigma with computing that is true!

Hopefully, more and more women are taking up computing and this will change the whole outlook on things.

[mad-onion]

I am Another(1), with my original name if you are wondering..

Anyway i did not quite know how to program at 10, but was still quite young when i first learnt to program.

I will admit nowadays i am, on occasion, very single minded. That is not to say i dont get out though.
I still do what "normal" kids do, just not so much...anyway it will mkae me rich some day...hehe i hope
Peace

[jamesglewisf]

I learned Basic (not VB) on an Apple IIE when I was 14. Yikes! That was 20 years ago. I'm getting old. I can't believe I'll be 35 years old in a few months.

Next was Pascal. Then I got my Computer Science degree and learned C, Fortran, Cobol, Assembler, etc.

[Aidan Bahta]

Originally posted by TWTCommish
I think most programmers have a reasonable balance - they get plenty done and work maybe a tad more than they should, but they don't cut themselves off from the world and don't have any major problems because of it.

I have a reasonable balance...110% computing!

Really, I don't have any major problems, and I am helping out my future quite a bit.

Now that I think of it, there are probably more webmasters on the Internet that are under 20 than over 20. Scary, huh?