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At what age did you start programming?   [Edit]

Survey period: 10 Jan 2011 to 17 Jan 2011

Did your parents give you a ZX-81 as a pacifier? Or did you come into the craft at a later age?

OptionVotes% 
under 5251.46
5-8824.80
9-1224214.15
13-1536421.29
16-1836421.29
19-2241224.09
23-271589.24
28-35382.22
36-50211.23
Over 5020.12
I don't program20.12



 
GeneralGOOD Pin
zsfaf22-May-12 23:59
zsfaf22-May-12 23:59 
GeneralMy first PC is russian analog of DEC PDP-11 named BK-0010.01 Pin
roman31316-Jan-11 5:56
roman31316-Jan-11 5:56 
GeneralMy first PC is Thomson TO7, 64 KByte of memory, no hard disk Pin
Nacereddine16-Jan-11 1:48
professionalNacereddine16-Jan-11 1:48 
GeneralMy first programming Lang... Pin
Prakash Nadar14-Jan-11 6:58
Prakash Nadar14-Jan-11 6:58 
GeneralRe: My first programming Lang... Pin
sparkw15-Jan-11 3:02
sparkw15-Jan-11 3:02 
GeneralRe: My first programming Lang... Pin
Delaram Sh15-Jan-11 21:30
Delaram Sh15-Jan-11 21:30 
GeneralRe: My first programming Lang... Pin
Hex0116-Jan-11 8:56
Hex0116-Jan-11 8:56 
GeneralVIC 20, Age 4 Pin
TheyCallMeMrJames13-Jan-11 4:03
TheyCallMeMrJames13-Jan-11 4:03 
GeneralOwn up - who's used punched cards? Pin
Rob Philpott13-Jan-11 0:55
Rob Philpott13-Jan-11 0:55 
GeneralRe: Own up - who's used punched cards? Pin
NormDroid13-Jan-11 1:50
professionalNormDroid13-Jan-11 1:50 
GeneralRe: Own up - who's used punched cards? Pin
OriginalGriff14-Jan-11 8:32
mveOriginalGriff14-Jan-11 8:32 
GeneralRe: Own up - who's used punched cards? Pin
meir.s13-Jan-11 3:01
meir.s13-Jan-11 3:01 
GeneralRe: Own up - who's used punched cards? Pin
BillW3313-Jan-11 3:56
professionalBillW3313-Jan-11 3:56 
GeneralRe: Own up - who's used punched cards? Pin
Kahuna Pig13-Jan-11 4:10
Kahuna Pig13-Jan-11 4:10 
GeneralRe: Own up - who's used punched cards? Pin
regalsoft13-Jan-11 5:18
regalsoft13-Jan-11 5:18 
GeneralRe: Own up - who's used punched cards? Pin
rentzk13-Jan-11 6:37
rentzk13-Jan-11 6:37 
GeneralRe: Own up - who's used punched cards? Pin
theripevessel13-Jan-11 6:00
theripevessel13-Jan-11 6:00 
GeneralRe: Own up - who's used punched cards? Pin
John M. Drescher13-Jan-11 17:11
John M. Drescher13-Jan-11 17:11 
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OriginalGriff14-Jan-11 8:39
mveOriginalGriff14-Jan-11 8:39 
Guilty as charged!
Then moved to paper tape in an industrial placement. (So much easier to carry, and if you dropped it it didn't shuffle itself.)
At least you could edit paper tape, but rewinding it could take a looong time.
After this, ed (unix) and edlin (DOS) were a vast relief, even if mots of my code was stored on twin 1Meg 8inch floppies. Not exactly large, even then: I ended up writing a progam to remove all the comments from my assembler code, just to get the source code small enough to fit on two disks and assemble...<shudder>
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

GeneralRe: Own up - who's used punched cards? Pin
zioriga15-Jan-11 20:44
zioriga15-Jan-11 20:44 
GeneralRe: Own up - who's used punched cards? Pin
WilliamSauron16-Jan-11 1:32
WilliamSauron16-Jan-11 1:32 
GeneralVIC-20, BBC Model B (both 6502), Acorn Archimedes (ARM) then succumbed to Microsoft and 'their hardware' Pin
Rob Philpott13-Jan-11 0:53
Rob Philpott13-Jan-11 0:53 
GeneralWordstar and Paratroopers game! Pin
GPUToaster™12-Jan-11 23:20
GPUToaster™12-Jan-11 23:20 
GeneralCommodor 64 PinPopular
Hamid_RT12-Jan-11 18:47
Hamid_RT12-Jan-11 18:47 
GeneralMitsubishi ML-F80 (MSX) Pin
E.F. Nijboer12-Jan-11 4:40
E.F. Nijboer12-Jan-11 4:40 

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