whos a young programer?

[bubach]

It was that and "nibbles" that started my programming intrest..
Strted out with replacing all Microsoft copyrigths with my own..

[Cjmovie]

OK, I guess I'm a little (a lot?) late to this post, but I want to say:

I'm 13. I know C, C++, Javascript, HTML, PHP, Torque Scripting Language, 3D Game Studio Scripting language. Also a few styles of ASM, including SX and Intel for x86.

I learned BASIC age 6, my brother didn't want to touch Interplay's Learn to Program Basic after it talked about algebra...umm, that was 'a = 5'? LOL.

Age 8 I learned HTML, soon after Javascript.
Finally learned C at age 9.
Learned C++ at age 11.
Learned 3D Game Studion and Torque about the same time, 12-13. BTW, I own copies of 3DGS Extra and Torque.

Also, Php just a few weeks ago for my website .
I own Cjmovie.net, and I sell computers. Making a nice profit, actually. People don't mind buying from 13 year olds as much as you'd think.

[dh]

I'm not gonna give my life story.

Pre-me:
my dad had this old thing called a Coco when he waw younger. Operated on basic.

What put me on this mad path is a little game called banna war (or something like that) where you had two monkeys and threw banna'ers at each other. Something like thoes tank games where you judge angle and power. Tinkered with the program until it broke.

Next up, my dad showed me 3 commands: print, locate, and color. Soon I discovered the magic F1 key and read the manual (qb1, short reading).

I made a "spegette-ware" program for writing stroies. Note the goto-label entitled "goheretodostuff"

Got VB. Excited ::)!! Got a book and made a _really_ bad desktop replacement that failed miserably.

Made a game, realized this was my calling (quote, unquote ;P). Made "HGS" (Hunting Game System). Made a loto program, and "HGS2".

Boring stretch....

Began working on DRE (previously DDRE, but sounded too much like DDR (dance-dance rev.), a RPG engine. Still not done.

Learned C and ASM, began Drake (OSdev fun ^_^).

Today: working on DRE again. Drake also.

[Gnome]

Ah, so I'm not the only one who started young. I sometimes joke that I started programming at age 6, but that was when I stumbled on QBASIC. From what I could understand from the help files (remember, I was 6), I figured out this was some way to tell the computer what to do. I enter "DRAW A DOOR" and run it. It doesn't work. I get frustrated and don't touch it for another two years or so. Between ages 8-10, I did random, generally useless coding. I once wrote a text editor that later reminded me a lot of pico or nano, and about 16 different simple screensavers (yes, I had lots of spare time back then ;D).

Between ages maybe 10-12, I did some VB coding once I got Windows. After that, I kinda gave up coding and did stuff like 3D graphics/modelling, and web stuff. Eventually, I wanted to do interactive stuff that 3D Studio Max couldn't do.

By now we're getting on about 14-15. Like other people here, I ventured into game programming and started learning C++ and DirectX. Some dude recruited me into an ill-fated project to make an RTS game. This was what got me out of the "recipe programming" stage of learning C++ and do some actual design. Eventually, the game engine design looked much like a badly-implemented version of CrystalSpace (we even called the engine Curved Space, interestingly enough), but this either pre-dated CrystalSpace, or at least my knowledge of it. I probably have that old code floating around somewhere, but I don't want to even look at it. It must be horrid.

I came across the A* pathfinding algorithm. I couldn't figure it out at the time (recursion? wtf?), but in figuring it out, I started leaving game dev behind. Somewhere along the line, I adopted Linux -- first RedHat, then Slackware, and I've been using Gentoo for about 2.5 years now. It almost instantly became my primary development platform. I constantly am learning new stuff -- first went back to C, then further down the hole to Assembly, then up to Java, C# (needed this for a job placement), Perl, Python, etc. Now a days, I try to use C++ or Assembly for low-level stuff and Python for everything else whenever possible.

I'm 19 now, and in my first year in Computer Science at the University of Guelph (in Ontario, Canada). Unfortunately, my studies don't leave much time for personal coding, but I try to fit in some work on my small osdev project.

[Red Shaya]

I was a mainframe programmer and database administrator back in 1986, sould I say more? .. LOL

My first experience with personal computers was at highschool with the ZX81 followed by the Atary 400/800. They were my friends computers as i wasn't really interested in computing and more in game playing. But life guide you in strage ways and I got into MF computing in 1986 and experienced the IBM360/370 OS as my primary experience of an operating system for several years until i decided to move out of the MF workd into th PC Dos/Windows world.

I'm more focused on OS history (if you can call 40 years history ) and design and less in developing. My Ameba project is aimed at preserving the knowlage that most of our nowdays "programmers" don't even know and stop to think about.

I'm 37 now. after more than 15 years as a software developer I decided i don't want to earn my living by writing (and maintaining) code. So now i act as an advisor for software project design and development.

[keeper]

I didn't start young, relative to everyone else. I played my share of PC games through most of my teenage years but then around age 17 decided it would be fun to try and write games instead. I learned BASIC in summer school before my final high school year, then learned Pascal. I went to university and learned C, C++, x86 asm, Java, and a bunch of other languages there. Not long after starting out there, I decided that OSes were more interesting than games... or maybe I was just scared of linear algebra.

I am scared of linear algebra...and quadratic, and trinomial factoring...

[KiBOrG]

I start programming when i have about 12-13. I start with Pascal. In i minute I am 14 an a other can a bit of assembler.

KiBOrG

[A.P.W.B.D.]

I am 16, and have done a lot. I started when I was 10.
I seem to naturally learn things quickly, especially programming languages.

For instance, up until a year ago I only knew Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, and its ASP.NET and ASP counterparts, and XML, and XSL, and XSLT. I also knew a small amount of Javascript and VBScript.

In the past year, I have:
Learned C++ completely
Learned C (in the process of learning C++)
Learned JAVASCRIPT
Learned C#
Learned PHP
written relatively simple operating systems(protected mode; allowing keyboard input; scrolling; one time showing a window on screen(with no text) and allowing the user to drag it around with the mouse(256-color mode))

It has been fun.

I also write parts of programs to create IBM AFP printer code (MO:DCA syntax) and Adobe PDF files (with compression).

I also use Matrix 3-D math.

In short(too late) I have come a long way since 6 years ago.

[Candy]

In the past year, I have:
Learned C++ completely
Learned C (in the process of learning C++)
Learned Java Script
Learned C#
Learned PHP

You have learned c#, php, js, ok... that seems possible. C, hard... c++ completely, quite much impossible unless you don't have anything else to do and skipped a full year of school. Do you also have the ability to debug it all and experience with most of the errors, plus experience with multiple compilers and what they do and do not accept? Have you read others c++ code and never had the idea that you might need to look something up or think about what they're doing there?

[slash]

I learned QBASIC when i was 12.Then I learned ASM to write an emulator.At 15 I learned C. Last year I learned VB.net & C#.Currently I am learning D language.

[A.P.W.B.D.]

Candy:
I started learning C++ and C last year, around July.
I wanted to write an operating system. So, I realised I needed to know C. So I learned it as I went along. I was dealing with no run-time libraries, so it was easy to learn the syntax. Next, I decided I liked C enough to start programming my other programs in it. I found out it wasn't flexible enough. Only in the past few months(since early december) have I been using C++. I had major trouble debugging at first, but not anymore. It has been at least a month since there was a syntax bug I couldn't solve.

I am writing the C++ programs to work on both Windows and Mac OS X, which is difficult by itself, because the GCC and Visual Studio .NET compilers have some differences. (It gets really nasty when I am trying to get font outlines)

It really is amazing, because I just write C++ like it is natural. I don't ever wonder how to do anything. I guess I am just good at learning new programming languages.

A.lbus.Percival.Wulfric.Brian.Dumbledore.

[Poseidon]

It really is amazing, because I just write C++ like it is natural. I don't ever wonder how to do anything. I guess I am just good at learning new programming languages.

I guess enough people on this forum can do that

[B.E]

I wanted to write an operating system. So, I realised I needed to know C.

You don't have to write operating system in C/C++. If you want you can write it all in assembly. But you must know how to write in assembly to do OS development

[dh]

Same here.

Cheers, DH.

[cmmchris]

hey everyone! I have just found this site. I have started to learn assembly language at 17. I have found a book that is easy to read, and I am getting a lot out of it