(if not to private) what are the ages of some members?

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How old are you?

age < 13
10
24%
13 < age < 18
12
29%
18 < age
20
48%
 
Total votes: 42

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Zacariaz
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Post by Zacariaz »

gratulieren
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Post by inflater »

Speewave wrote:
Meshounah wrote:wow only three are =<13(i'm 13 myself)
welcome to the club... Beside. What 13 year old wants to make an OS.. be side the 4\5 that are here on OSDev?

has there ever been a kid younger then 12/13 to join OSDev?
My first idea of making my own OS began in my 12 and there, I started my first "OS". In 13, I started making PortixOS, in Pascal. And now, in 14? Converting this pascal OS to 32bit assembly :)

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Post by LaurensR1983 »

OMG... I was still working with QBasic and Visual Basic when I was at that age. Like you're destined to become a system developer inflater 8)

I'm 23 btw.
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14
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Post by Bughunter »

Code: Select all

pi = {
    /* Offset 0x0000: */
3
    /* Offset 0x0001: */
1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
    /* Offset 0x0065: */
8214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
    /* Offset 0x00C9: */
4428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273
    /* Offset 0x012D: */
7245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094
    /* Offset 0x0191: */
3305727036575959195309218611738193261179310511854807446237996274956735188575272489122793818301194912
}

age = pi[0x01EA] * 10;
age += pi[0x01EB];
For all you PI lovers out here :lol:
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Post by Jeko »

Wow, who is younger than 13 years old?

I'm 16.
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started learning

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i started learning batch, BASIC, and C++ at 11 or 12. personally, i like batch when i am bored and want to create some network sharing program. i use BASIC when i want to develop something fast, and i use C and ASM for OS devving. for Windows i wouldn't be surprised if i started programming in C#
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Post by inflater »

.BATch scripts in Windows, that was 4 years ago :)
It was sure fun to write some message, DEL *.* and convert it to COM ;) Here you go - your first virus :) [actually I deleted it right away :D]

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Post by com1 »

i don't know anyone on osdev (including me) that is younger than 13
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Post by distantvoices »

swap the digits of com1' age then increment the resulting number and you've gon my age. :-) This ain't too difficult I reckon, eh?
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Post by Kevin McGuire »

I am two years old.
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Post by AJ »

Kevin McGuire wrote:I am two years old.
Ah - that explains it, then :twisted:
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Post by elderK »

:P No > 18?
Darn :P

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Post by Jeffrey »

I've been reading some of your replies and I probably identify myself best with 'inflater', with the exception that I started programming when I was about 7 or 8 years old (I know so because I was in the 3rd grade, and with a summer birthday, but I would say that it was most likely at 8 ) and am now 19.

I started programming almost immediately after getting my first computer when a friend of mine, who was quite a bit older than I was, introduced me to the wonderful world of programming. Ever since I started, I have been interested in writing utilities and not games, which eventually led me to wanting to write an operating system like the ones I was playing with at the time, which included Dos, Win3.11, Win95. So the first time I tried writing an operating system, or what I thought was an operating system (multitasking script interpreter with a gui menu system), was probably around the age of 10. I know that all this probably sounds a bit crazy, but honestly, it is all true. It's called RITALIN lol.
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Post by piranha »

Well, as of this week I am 15.

I started learning to programming in BASIC and visual BASIC when I was 8, and the C came when I was 10. Around that time I learned about computers (the internals). When I was 11, I started wanting to write my own OS. Around that time I switched to Linux (I was using windows, but I watched someone use Linux and thought "WOW, Thats is so much better"). When I was 12 I started learning about OS Dev, off an on, and now I have been writing my OS for over 1 1/2 years now.

There you go, my programming history.

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