How did you begin programming and at what age?
I badgered my parents into buying a friends cast-off Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the late 80s - I was probably around ten or so.
Little more than a games machine, it did have BASIC hardcoded in, with the keywords printed on the 'dead flesh' rubber keys.
I spent that summer and more reading and rereading the manual, and teasing apart the programs that were listed in the Sinclair user magazines I'd brought.
Well, It was very genuine reason that i came to programming world. During my 11th std, I did a blunder by switching off the server power during my computer LAB Test session. Everyone's program got deleted, my Tutor "Nandhakumar" became very angry and scolded me badly saying that "I fit for only cleaning the computer parts and not worth to work with it" :) but that is the time and spark i got in me to excel in this programming area. i took it as a challenge and later it happened to be my passionate area as well. It started at the age of 18. I remember my first program as well, it's Basic language to Read Values and display the same :)
I began scripting mods for a video game called Counter-Strike 1.6. It used a custom compiler built for the language PAWN/BASIC. I then moved onto LUA for Garry's Mod (A sand box video game). And finally started my formal education in Visual Basic and moved onto C++, C#, C, Java, XHTML, CSS, JScript, and PHP shortly after.
I would estimate I started around 14.
started at varsity at age 17
At the age of 10. A friend of my dad's had a Nascom1, and he showed me how to program it in Cobol.
A few months later I got my own computer, a ZX81 and I stayed up all night reading the manual. In the morning I wrote my first program for it in Basic. |
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