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I was just thinking about this.

How old was everyone when they first go into IT? Something along the lines of when you wrote your first program or script, or when you first started a programming course, etc. And what was the reason?

I was 22. First proper start was through an Intro to Information Technology course as part of my current degree. I was working a dead-end, depressing callcentre job. I was thinking what my life was going to be like, so I made a concious decision to start my degree and make something of myself. It's, of course, a bit more detailed but I am more interested in what others have to share.

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  • 2
    7y
    I was 10 when I started seriously. Before that, I had done video editing.
    I found some HTML in a kid's novel, described as "nerd stuff". I put down the book and went to try the code in Notepad. I never picked the book up again.
  • 1
    7y
    I had my first course for MS-Dos command line when I was 11/12
    Cause I was complaining to my parents that my brother uses codes so I can't play in the family 286...
  • 2
    7y
    I wrote my first code when I followed some instructions from my Commodore 64 User's Guide (Chapter 6 - Introduction to Sprites) to make a balloon fly across the screen. This balloon:
  • 2
    7y
    I was 12 when my mom bought me a java4 book ^^
  • 2
    7y
    8 when i started HTML, 10 when i started playing with cmd, 12 when i got into java basics, 13 when i started linux and tinkering with raspberrypi, 14 when i got into html5, css3, javascript, php and sql, 15 when i got into nodejs and mongo
  • 2
    7y
    I was 16 when I switched from just using my computer for random stuff to write programs on it. I started CS at that time in school.
  • 2
    7y
    13
  • 2
    7y
    I feel old...
  • 2
    7y
    13 (16 yeah ago o_O)
    First programming languages were Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic at first. Later Delphi, BlitzBasic and c++. Later in school Java, HTML and Javascript stuff too. At University still Java, SPS and c++. With my Masters degree C#, Golang. I think there will be more languages to come ^^
  • 2
    7y
    I'm 17 now, it's been maybe 1-3 years since I started with HTML now 🤔

    Created my GitHub account 1,5 years ago
  • 3
    7y
    11. I was gifted a copy of Visual Basic Pro, along with some rather thick manuals. It came on ten floppy disks.
  • 4
    7y
    13 y/o, first assembler snippets, smell of burned VME cards, learning C on amiga, later parents bought me some modern stuff, I believe it was Intel core Duo pc so i wen mad scientist style and started learning how to compile unix kernel from books. Was around 15 or 16 back then... Good times...
  • 2
    7y
    Damn all of you guys
    I'm 22 and I feel so old now 😱😂
  • 1
    7y
    All good stuff. :) from what I see it is never to early to start but I can't change that for myself haha.
  • 2
    7y
    2nd year (bachelor) of university I took numerical methods course which relied on MATLAB. During my 2 years of MSc I took more optional courses about modeling and plant design all of which relied on solid MATLAB skills. Last year (this one) a course used C++ as language for process modeling and now my thesis is a C++ project that will add into my research group's opensource framework for combustion systems simulations.
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