crazykid48x

I started this thread to learn about how long others have been programing and what all they did to get where they are now. Since I started this thread I'll go first.

My first attempt at any kind of code was when I learned html, I was 11 when I first started, and by the age of 12 I made a website for my sister.
http://www.geocities.com/crazykid48x/splashpage.html
its for a boyband she used to like (the layout got skrewed up over the 4 years since I put it up, And the code is soooo messy I cant fix it)

Then after I finished html I took a break from coding. But soon after I saw the movie swordfish, which was basically about a hacker, I looked up a hacking tutorial on the internet. I read through it and it was a pile of $h*t but at the end it said, "if you want to be a true hacker you have to learn a programming language, I recomend c++, java, or visual basic". From there I searched the internet for tutorials on all three but since i was such a noob (still only 12) I could only find a free compiler for c/c++. (dev c++).

After creating a caculator in c++ I gave up on programming for a long time.
2 years later I got back into web development using php, css, and a little jscript. I did this on and off (mostly off) for 2 years but never completed the project i was working on. (a text based mmorpg)

Soon after I quit web development (16 years old now) I started to program in blitzbasic. That lasted for a week or two, and shortly after that I whent back to c++ wich is were I am now, learning guis like windows and allegro. And oh yeah im still gonna be a hacker oneday

welp thats it, I hope I hear other's programming history because im sure it will motivate me to keep working. (my history was pretty short if you have a longer history feel free to not go into soo much detail)

Benoit

Started learning HTML when I was 12, started learning C when I was 15, Visual Basic when I was 16, and here I am now at 17.

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bl00dninja

well, to be comprehensive i suppose i would have to include the diddling around i did with gwBASIC when i was a kid, before windows and when RAM was measured in kb. a little over a year ago, i picked up a book on html. that lead to javascript, which led to java, which lead to c and c++ (simultaneously), and now have to take some vb for school (just one third of a semester).

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java_roshan

bl00dninja, you have quite a different route in your programming history. Interesting!

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Arevos

I dabbled in BASIC on the Dragon 32 microcomputer when I was about 6 - essentially just using INPUT, PRINT and PLAY. Then I graduated to QBASIC on the 386 from about age 7 or 8, where I wrote program using simple graphics and random name generators and things such as that. From 12 to 15 I discovered the joys of C, HTML and Javascript, and from 15 to 17 I worked with Bash, Perl, PHP and SQL. From 17 to 20 I learnt Python, SML, Prolog and Java, and at 21 I learnt Ruby and Nice and a bit of Scheme/LISP.

Haskell and Scala are next on the list

jonyzz

I started my coputer education with gaming at home - we were amongst the first in our town that had a computer at home - my parents are both programmers and I was able to know about computers, due to them. So I first started playing games I was maybe 5th grade or even younger.. don't remember quite well, then I was 7th grade and it was the first time I saw the Internet!! it was at home and it was quite slow, but.. yeah this was something new to me. (things were coming a little later to where I lived). I think this was the time I decided that I want to be able to make websites.

Then I got to high school, where I chose my science profile to be computers... don't ask me why we started with BASIC, then went on Pascal, some Delphi and OOP concepts, also had some idea of Borland C++, SQL and Flash Meanwhile I learnt some HTML on my own. I was 10th grade when I made my first website - I don't know if pasting the link here is appropriate... it is awful and you won't be able to read anything, because of the language, but.. whatever: http://tendo.sliven.net/ (not sure if you guys will even be able to open it). I learned also some CSS and javascript on my own

Then I went to university and there we started with C the first semester and C++ the second... heh I loved them the third semester we got a peer at assembly language, but, ok I can't program in it.. and the fourth we studied PROLOG, but I don't like it.
I also learnt some PHP because I had a short practice in a company... and now.. well, I am working right now as a QA (not Q&A, please, that's different ), so I am testing, not programming... meanwhile I am having a peer at Java, and I wish to learn it - not that I like it as much as C/C++ but it's modern.. but Java seems far from me for now and I intend to subscribe to the .NET course at the university and get to know some C#... well.. that's it.. for now but I wish I was really good at least at one programming language...

jonyzz

I read the prevous posts on that topic, and you guys have started quite earlier than me.. It seems that I am lagging..

ChiHappens

I started when I was 11 with BASIC on a TRS80. Then I learned Lisp, Fortran, Pascal, Logo, PL1, COBOL and then PL2 (in high school). Then home computers became all the rage and I learned TOS Basic, GWBasic, and Assember for the Rockwell 6502 and then Assember for the Motorola 68000 (in junior college). As home computers became more powerful, and I became an Atari Revolutionist, I started working in Hippo C and GFA Basic. Finally Warner Communications sent the Atari Computers the way of the dinosaurs, so I bit the bullet and entered into the i486 world. I started using Borland's Turbo Pascal since I was pretty good at Pascal, but then Borland put out Turbo C and I have kept a special place in my heart for C languages ever since. I move to Borland C++ and then Borland C++ Builder (for the windows world). Currently I program in C# (primarily), C/C++ (both Borland C++ Builder and VC++6/7), Java, Visual Basic 6, and wouldn't you know it COBOL!

Phew what a long strange trip it has been,
Chi

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Dizzutch

I don't even remember, I think I started coding in Basic on an old Atari ST with 1MB of RAM and no Harddrive, I remember I wrote a program that basically showed a pac-man figure move about the screen opening and closing it's mouth. My parents had a physisist friend who coded, and whenever he came over for coffee i made him show me some new stuff. Then I got into the web-thing (must have been about 10 at the time), making website, but since I suck at graphic design I needed to find other ways to keep myself entertained in stead of writing lame webpages. When I was about 12 I got a copy of VB5 LE (yes, i bash it now, but i wrote for it *shame*), and hooked up w/ some kids in school that also used VB. When I was around 14 I installed Linux for the first time, i managed to get some debian floppy's (pre potato). However, I had dial-up so there was no way I could download any files (in the Netherlands you pay-per-minute for phone time). When I was 16 I moved to the states, and took a C class at a program at MIT. Because of lack of motivation and ideas, I didn't do much with it, but stuck to web-programming. In the meantime I had gotten comfortable with PHP and some Perl. Then when I went to college I got back into the CS scene, declaring my major (I had been running Linux full-time since junior year of HS). 4 years later, got my BA w/ high honors in CS, got a job as a Network Engineer, and am now coding scripts left and right, and jumping on OSS game projects. All of this of course is second to helping out you folks at PFO..

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BinaryStorm

First, sorry for bad grammar, etc..

I mastered MS QBasic when I was 13 years old, and when I saw i I can't make games in it (i was beginner then, and only wanted to program games...), I started to program in VB 6.0. I made a lot of applications in it. ADO DB, SQL, some VGA graphics... When I saw that it can't make very good multimedia apps, i started learning C++. I was about 14 then. I have enjoyed in it for a long time. Mastered all the basic things, pointers, references, etc... Then I crossed in the OO world. Learnt some basics, and decided to rest from it.
While surfing the net, I saw Java. I said why not. So I got some books, and learned it in no time since I already had good knowledge of C++. I got to the OO part. Classes are little easier in Java, so I was able to learn it well. Then I got to the applets.
Studied them for some time, and then returned to C++. With the knowledge of Java classes, I was able to quickly learn all the differences between Java and C++ classes. After I learned all the things about OOP in C++, I got interested in learning some other languages. I choosed Python, and was learning it for some time, until I had knowledge to write useful applications.
For some time I was working on my C++ projects, and then started learning Scheme and OCaml. I'm still learning them, and I'm now 16 years old.

Besided those languages, I also know HTML, JS, VBS, CSS, little PHP, and little (My)SQL.

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