Realising that 12 year olds these days can code and build better than I do today.

When I was 12, I was content playing Pinball and chatting with strangers on yahoo messenger.

I'm 23 and shameless.

Lol is yahoo messenger still a thing?

I'm 18 years old and feel the same. I guess our age has ended before we expected, eh?

dont worry guys.. most of them just copy your code from stackoverflow 😂

@thomas99934 I actually am in a Telegram group where the average age is I think 15. Boy do they hate those who copy paste! New generations!

I was playing around with Basic and assembler at this age, but I was really bad back then. I'd rather liked playing as well.
It needed 10 years more to become a somewhat decent programmer, and another 10 years to become a developer.

The good old days of ICQ and MSN Messenger where the internet was inhabited of people that were anonymous instead of using their full name. Kinda like devrant i guess.

I'm 14 and this just isn't true.

@MissDirection Oh you, MissUnderstood.

*Ba dum tss*

She meant she used to do those things when she was 12.

@CodeMasterAlex I thought we belonged to a community which believes that anyone can start to code during any time of their life.

Our jobs are not defined as static and final since the very beginning.

@CodeMasterAlex that's for me to decide (:

I may not be the best at what I do but I love what I do! Not all artists can be Van Gogh you know.

I started coding at 23 so you are doing better than I am ha.

@thomas99934 what is stack overflow 😂

@Jeremiahlukus 😂

@byte-me

I think that as long as you have the curiosity and ambition to improve you have what it takes to be a dev.

It's not about perfection, it's about continuously moving in the right direction.

I've been writing software for 22 years, and there's still so much to learn, so much to try and master.

There's maybe 5 "things" I feel very comfortable with, but those are connected to 50 things I mostly grasp, which branch out into 500 fields I barely know about and could spend a lifetime studying.

You pick a few things which you find interesting, and try to match them with industry demand, and then you kind of randomly explore in all directions.

As soon as someone thinks "I'm done, I'm a senior now, I've mastered this", they stop being a good developer.

@byte-me you'll be fine, at least you're not ignorant of the things you don't know. That's a lot better than many developers out thete

@gjkf can I join?

I'm 21 and I feel the same!

couldn't agree more! Thank you. @bittersweet

on the same boat :/