lectricpharaoh

Grich: Have you tried C# yet? I find it to be a nice language, and if you like .NET, it's a good idea to learn it. After all, it is the 'flagship language' for the .NET Framework.

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wannabe7

I just started learning last year, I'm 16 now. Still, very much a newbie. I am gradually learning C++ in my spare time (job, school, among others). I'm intrigued by the people that start so young. I have just 2 question for the ones that started early (also for the Mod who started at 37).

How did you start programming?

Why did you start programming?

Grich

I have been told that alot, and I really want to get into it when I have time. Apparently for a project I have to do, I would have to use C#, it isn't for another six months or so. A good excuse to learn it.

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Grich

I started at 15/16 years old. At school we had to build a Macro for Excel, I was the only student who enjoyed it. A couple of months later, we started QBASIC, very basic programs, again I was the only one who enjoyed it at school. It just built up from there. Now I'm a VB.NET programmer.
The ability to build a game attracted me to it, but the attraction grew into making my own software and programs. I am one of those people that likes to know how the insides of things worked. eg Computers.
I was one of those kids who pulled everything apart.

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tierro

And I? After my uncle died when i was 7 , his friend gave me a little old ICL laptop with windows 95 (I don't remember the type). I took it nearly everywhere, when we were on holiday, my dad keyed in qbasic and showed me some things. I was completely stunned and I immediately started learning. After my other uncle heard of this, he gave me a book about Qbasic, which I learnt even more from.

(Quite some uncles involved in this huh?)

It's a great way to waste time, and now (already) make some money!

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Grich

Ha! I know what you mean.

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Narue

>How did you start programming?
I borrowed a book from the programming teacher's library and got started through trial and error.

>Why did you start programming?
To win a bet.

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Infinite Recursion

>How did you start programming?

My parents bought the family a Tandy Color Computer 3 (which I still have, decades later). I used it mainly to learn math and play games. Then I found a programming manual that I think came with it... I still have this book as well. I started reading it and following the examples... met a guy that lived down the road that was into programming also... and we started writing code together.... which I also still have and it blows my mind. lol


>Why did you start programming?

Couldn't run around in the woods when it was raining, eventually found myself indoors most of the time spending my hobby into a profession.

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Ooble

Best way to start anything, IMO.

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lectricpharaoh

What did you win, besides a career?

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