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How old were you when you started coding?

I did a bit at school (which is slowly coming back to me) but i must admit it bored me senseless at the time. I'm now about to turn 30 and decided it's something i would love to learn after seeing a friends code he wrote to control his.... 'horticultural project' but i worry sometimes i have left it too late. How old were you when you started, and what got you into it?

20th Jan 2017, 2:37 PM
Dustysoul
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I started in 2016(18 years), before I wanted to be an architect XD. When I finished highschool level I decided to change for programming and computer engineering, and I love it 😁
20th Jan 2017, 3:00 PM
C.E.
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I was just 9 years old when I started coding . 4 years have passed since then.
26th Jan 2017, 3:32 AM
Siddharth Saraf
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8,5 years old.:-) HTML
24th Mar 2017, 5:42 AM
Art456
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I am 18 and I started it a year ago
20th Jan 2017, 4:27 PM
Sakshi👸
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14. (I love hacking! ^_^)
20th Jan 2017, 2:37 PM
Valen.H. ~
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now I am 12 and started 2 year ago
10th Feb 2017, 3:08 PM
Ekansh
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Fight...........Kick............slap...........:-| Never remember the date:(
24th Mar 2017, 6:00 AM
Dev
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17 I was learning C but because of Sun I know python and solo learn gave me more confidence and Great Friends BTW Its never late to learn. Nice concept
20th Jan 2017, 2:43 PM
Shirious
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I started programming with when I was 14. Actually with 13, I wanted to make minecraft plugins and make small games. In the beginning, I learned the basics of java. For my fourteenth birthday I got a book for java programming. I learned Java for I think almost 8 months or more. I was nerved that I can see the program only in the console in java, so I began to learn html, css and js. Now I'm learning C ++. I am writing c.a 2 sites, some Java and some C ++ programs per month. The programming is fun to me and I also visit a technical upper school. In my country, you can only learn the programming from 16/17 at school, but it is not bad to have pre-knowledge. Sorry 4 m bad english. 😂😂
23rd Jan 2017, 10:15 PM
Ivan Bergamo
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13, wanted to make android games
30th Jan 2017, 8:10 PM
StillSoul‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍
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Hi, I start to learn dev. 9 months ago in my 29 Did i think I'm old? nope :) but i work like advertising coordinator so i see code everyday, so i start to belive that i love that machine lingua and that algin-methatology
21st Jan 2017, 12:27 PM
Mladen Stojkovic
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19 😧
20th Jan 2017, 4:18 PM
Ahmad S Kanaan
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I started looking into html at 15, picking up C++ last year and C# just a few days ago. I also dabbled in python and java somewhere in the mix.
20th Jan 2017, 4:19 PM
Aaron
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i was like 14 15
21st Jan 2017, 6:58 AM
Sujan Bro
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I started programming in 1995 at the age of 20. GW-Basic was my first programming language.
11th Apr 2017, 12:34 PM
देवेंद्र महाजन (Devender)
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19 I started with c++
20th Jan 2017, 9:08 PM
Shimaa Khaled
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20 with Python 😁😁
21st Jan 2017, 12:18 AM
Alain Foote
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@Holiday Penguin I too face same problem with Python and C in college XD
21st Jan 2017, 2:49 AM
Shirious
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19
22nd Jan 2017, 4:34 AM
Nur Hidayah
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I started programming at age 8 by teaching myself BASIC on a TRS-80 model 1. I then switched to Atari BASIC at 11. Through high school I worked in Assembly Language on the Atari (6502), while picking up Applesoft BASIC (Apple ][e) and GW BASIC (IBM PC). In my senior year of high school I took AP Computer Science, which at that time taught Pascal, while learning C on my own. After that I picked up Borland's Turbo Basic for a couple of special projects at my work. Eventually in my mid-late 20s I finally went into software development professionally, first under DOS, then Unix, until I got laid off in 2001 just after 9/11. Since then (and I'm 46 now) I've mostly dabbled with Python.
22nd Jan 2017, 7:23 AM
Tim Spalding
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