How old were you when you learned your first coding language?

[Mascotte45]

I think I must have been about 12 (I'm 28 now) when I first start learning about web applications and languages. I think the first website I made was a fan site for Club Penguin... lol

How about everyone else - how old were you when you first learned a coding language and do you remember what your first project was?

[thecoalman]

1983 on a C64. It turned the TV into a strobe light which I'm sure did wonders for the life of the TV. Note I said TV, color monitors were uber expensive so I used my massive 13 inch color TV that probably cost a few hundred dollars itself.

[warmweer]

IIRC a similar topic was started years ago (but I can't find it)


Probably around 6 years old. The language IIRC was Abacus.

Seriously, The first "computer" language I learned was Fortran (age around 18 or 19).
Next was DOS edlin: not really a programming language but computers had very limited memory and processing power so it was interesting to fool around with all the command items and create different startup configurations depending on what I needed.

The first real programming language I learned was Visual Basic (for applications) which I still use.
Professionally I used avenue to create GIS applications, later ArcGIS (Visual Basic).
Played around a bit with Python but the syntax didn't suit me.

And when I discovered phpBB, I tried to force myself to learn PHP. With phpBB 3.0 I did write a couple of simple mods for personal use, but again the syntax doesn't suit me (at all). Reading and understanding the current phpBB-code is sub-optimal (I'm being generous).

[wintstar]

2010 with phpbb 3.0.7 when I was 46 years old. First it was html. Then came php mysql and Javascript.
You're never too old to learn something new.

[Brf]

Back in 1979 on a Commodore Pet computer. It had 7K of memory and used a cassette tape. No hard drives back then. Before that it was a TI-58 programmable calculator.

[thecoalman]

... and used a cassette tape. No hard drives back then.

A lot of people on here don't know what a cassette tape is. I was fortunate and had a floppy drive but that was a few years later.

Between the computer, drive and the color TV it was an investment of roughly $2K in today's dollars. If you bought at release it was probably over $4k

Here is blast from the past. You used to be able to buy these magazines and they would have computer code in them. They were usually basic games but might be other things like address book etc. You'd have to manually enter the code, might be a few hundred lines. Inevitably there would be typo and you'd have to go through it line for line to find it.

[Anișor]

11, Pascal

[AmigoJack]

14 and (Turbo) Pascal. 1-2 months later I got my first own PC with a 75 MHz Intel Pentium, a 3.5" floppy drive and a CD-ROM drive, so I could also program at home. To this day I program with Delphi.