Personal Question

[Solar]

Age 31, more than half of that time spend in front of computers.

[Curufir]

29. First computing experience was a ZX81 at around age 6, first programming experience came around 30 minutes after the first computing experience when a friend explained how to alter a space invaders program to give myself more lives (I miss that silver printer paper) .

Been programming ever since, and one of these days I might actually get around to finishing a project (Got the attention span of a mayfly). Latest amusement is programming using only a hex editor and the Intel manuals. This also counts as one of the dumbest programming things I've done ;D.

[BI lazy]

@pype: oh, welcome back to tokyo ;-P

[xxchrisxx]

bah... I feel too young and inexperienced now

hehe I'm still in grade 10 >:(

[drizzt]

I am 25 and I've started the OS-development "art" about 2 years ago...
I started my career in computer programming when I was 10 with a wonderful C64!!!

[Tux]

I am 5 (penguin years) (that's 15 for you humanists)

I started coding in between the ages 9 and 10.
The first language I learned was C using self-education.
What started it all was the game Doom.

I never finished any of my projects because I start big. For example, my first project was an emulator of an imaginary core. I have 70% of it done and the project is dead.

I started OSdeving 2 years ago, and now I am helping to make a GUI for Halfix (xsism's kernel)

blah blah blah blah blah

[mr. xsism]

bah... I feel too young and inexperienced now

hehe I'm still in grade 10 >:(

i'm 16 and i feel plenty experienced. Although there are some geezers her(ahem Pype) that know a lot because they do more than OSdev

w00t @ Tux and the GUI w00t w00t

[BoomSukka]

Just turned 32, am dreading my age (still feel 21, and the 21 year old gals still look amazing )

Got my honors degree in Comp. Sci, and keep wondering why oh why do I have this fascination with OS development? I was teaching game development for a while; shoulda stuck with that!

Seriously though, I'm a little sidetracked from OS development -- I've been doing a lot of research into programming languages and am working (informally) on a visual programming language...

The best part is, if everything works out, I'll have a foundation for a truly unique OS...

Tim.

[beyondsociety]

Just turned 21. I got intrested with osdev 2 years ago while taking a college class. Im always been into computers. I frst started building computers when I was 5. I started getting into programming when I was 8 or 9. Ive been hooked ever since.

It shouldnt matter how old your are when it comes to writing an os. The more experience you have, the easier it is to write code and understand design issues. You should not just start out writing an os as you will probably fail. My suggestion is to come up with a design, then try it. Most of the time your ideas on paper wont work out the gate the first time. Dont get disappointed, as osdev is a long and painful consuming process, but the the finished product is rewarding.

Hope this helps someone.

[Candy]

As of Christmas this year, 20.5 years exactly (not counting different month lengths). Started on a C64 when I was 5, started programming when I was 7 (C64 basic, you guessed), and went on with it as it came. First time I did a language that compiled to something it was assembly in basic, and in specific QBasic. Made a fader (www.qbasic.com still has it, smallfade) and a graphical environment (my first GUI! had an xp-style mouse cursor ability (translucency, 1024*768 + 32-bit color) in 1997! Did run slow as hell though, qbasic wasn't really made for bank-switching 3MB anymore than for doing translucency calculations). Then switched to C and C++, started to do some java, php, stuff like that, and in the end, been programming on OSes for something like 5 years now...

As for the single part, not really

[kataklinger]

Well, i'm 19. Same story as Candy's... First time i saw computer was at my 5th age. It was Commodore64. I started "programming" when i was 7. Well you can't say that at that ages you can do a real programming. My first code was:

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10 PRINT MLADEN
20 GOTO 10

First code and my first mistake
I have done some things in Simon's BASIC, but nothing especially. I got PC while i was 11 and i was trying to do something with QBASIC. With my 12 year i started to learn some real programming - C and C++. It was hard to start.
Since today i have learnd: C64 BASIC V2, SIMON'S BASIC, C, C++, C#, x86 ASM, PASCAL (i hate to say this), QBASIC, JAVA (not very good), PIC 16F*** ASM, Intel 85c51 ASM and ATL, MFC, ADO.NET, ASP.NET.
I have studied OS dev for two years but I started to write an OS year ago...
And my plans for future: to finish my OS, to learn C64 ASM ;D, and to start doing something that brings $$$

[Candy]

Well, i'm 19. Same story as Candy's...
...
Since today i have learnd: C64 BASIC V2, SIMON'S BASIC, C, C++, C#, x86 ASM, PASCAL (i hate to say this), QBASIC, JAVA (not very good), PIC 16F*** ASM, Intel 85c51 ASM and ATL, MFC, ADO.NET, ASP.NET.

Starting to get a bit scary here... I too hate pascal (can read it but never ever programmed in it, and planning on keeping it that way, and java just for school... the language is very shoddy...

As for the .net stuff, I'm not doing what M$ wants me to for the past eh... 6 years or so...

[pini]

I'm twenty since middle november. I can't really remember when I started programming, but I guess I was about 10 years old.
I found all the computer stuff so interesting that I'm currently studying in a computer science engineer french school.

[kataklinger]

Just one more thing:"Every problem has solution! Everything is possibile!"

[Rahman]

I'm 20. Started programming at the age of 16. Got interested in developing an OS on March '03. I'm developing with my friend, who is also a member here.