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DaWei started programming back when my parents were still in diapers. lol

DaWei

DaWei was designing a discrete-logic digital tape system (there was no MSI or LSI at the time) when someone brought in a Fairchild F8 micro and wondered if it could be used for control. Someone had to program it. We had no assembler at first, so I had to program it in machine code with banks of switches. It clocked at .75 MHz. It could be used for gross control but was incabable of sufficient response times to control the motors. Programming has been a portion of my life ever since.

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I bought -well my parents bought it for me actually- my first pc when I was 10. I was a gamer mostly until I became 16. Then I started learning Visual Basic but I quit after some time, mostly because I didn't like what I was achieving (it, indeed, didn't worth the trouble after all). When I was 17, I finished school and went to university to study computer engineering. I started with C, moved to Java, moved back to C ( I didn't like java a lot) and, after some time I also started learning C++. That's for the past 4 years. Recently I've picked up Python and MySQL/PHP(mostly for maintaing a database that I have on my pc but I don't think that'll last). The next language I am going to try is perl, mostly because I think that bash scripting is inadequate to administer a server and also perl looks really nice...

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InfoGeek

I got interested in computers when I was in school. Later I decided to join the computer course at college. I finished the three year degree program. Then I got a job as a Visual Basic programmer. I did that for almost a year and then I quit that job for higher studies. Now I'm in my final year of post graduation.

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AICkieran

I have been interested in computers since i was fairly young and messing around with games on an old BBC when i first started school. Then in my second to last year of primary school i learnt some javascript which i thought was pretty cool but none the less useless to me since i didnt have a computer. Then when i was 11 i got my first computer(5 years ago, yes, im young) and didnt have the internet so the novelty quickly wore off and i got bored untill i was visiting family and saw a book about visual basic, It was the only thing i had to keep me from bordom so i read it and thought it was cool how you could create your own programs which before seemed imposible for me, I had a friend that let me "Borrow" a copy of vb and i quickly started playing around, Then my friend told me about REALBasic and i started playing with that, I started using linux(Red hate 8 because it came free with the redhat "bible") and saw C/C++ source code, looking up to the people that knew it as though they were genius's, it all seemed so complicated and i thought hell, i might aswell try and i did and i enjoy C, i also like the look of python which i havent used yet, But my aim is to carry on with C and learn assembly for PIC because i am interested in programming PIC microcontrollers. The thing i like most is programming "Convenience apps" Things that seem so simple but i couldnt find anything that did it, After all, thats why i started programming, To do things other people havent, not to re-invent the wheel. Im by no means a "Programmer" But i enjoy it and i have the motivation to carry on.

Sorry if this seems long winded but talking about it gives me motivation to carry on. Lol.

Nebula

I started with QBASIC, then C, then Python, now Perl and more C.

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Jessehk

First, I fiddled around with TI-BASIC in math class. I never got beyond a simple gussing game. Then, wanting to to a "real" language, I bought C for Dummies, a great book for those completely new to programming. Having finished that (and experimenting with C for a while), a bought C++ Primer Plus which tried to teach C before C++ (unfortunately), but still added some STL stuff near the end.

Having finished that book (about 1000 pages), I feel I have a good, basic knowledge of C++ (maybe beginner-intermediate). I am currently learning Turing in a grade 10 comp-sci class, which I am finding a joke. I make it my job to help and teach others that are confused.

On my own time, I am learning Java (tought in grade 11), and python.
Although I love programming, I fear the average salaray would not be able to provide me with the level of finances that I would wish for. Therefore, I might try to get into medicine, or engineering.

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niteice

I was about 8 or so (4th grade) and discovered the magic of QBASIC on my mom's 386. That year I happened to recieve "Visual Basic 6 for Dummies Deluxe Compiler Kit" for Christmas. It was an interesting little thing, the VB6 included was a fully functional Standard Edition but minus compiler...really messed up actually. So I messed around with that for a while...at the age of 11 (7th grade) (2002) I warezed VB6 Enterprise over AOL, messed with that for a while more now that I could make EXEs...now at some point during 5th grade or so I had also picked up "C++ For Dummies" (also with a cut-down MS compiler that instead inserted a licensing message box at app startup), not realizing the book assumed the reader knew C first....so about the age of 13 (2003) I finally got into Quake engine modding (being an id fanboy :p) hence requiring me to learn C...so I mostly picked it up from working with Quake-related engines....last year I finally pulled "C++ For Dummies" off the bookshelf, flipped through it...so by this point, I have an intermediate knowledge of C and C++, some knowledge of VB (note that I don't really understand VB2005 what with all my prior VB6 experience....can't be a bad thing :p)...oh did I mention I learned a bunch of PHP last year? So yeah, I also have intermediate knowledge of PHP...perhaps I'll tackle ASP.NET as well at some point...I don't think i'm doing all that bad for a high school sophomore at this point. Except for the fact that I highly despise OO for just about all uses, unlike most coders at my age that are all like "omg c++ and teh php classez lolz"

Cool1Net6

Im young, so my 'introduction' to programming didn't really happen until 1999...

I was always interested in creating stuff on a computer ever since I was like 3 or 5, but I never got into it until I got my first computer (in 1999). I had a copy of MS Publisher laying around, so I started making web pages on that, found out it sucked, then taught myself HTML. I found this program called MultiMedia Builder, and loved it (still do), and made a load of things in that (still have source code).

I dont remember when I started to program in VB, but I do know I made some really cool and neat programs in it. Of course, I taught myself. Around the same time I was whizzing through QBASIC classes at school, moved on to C++, and started learning that. I ran a web site which had a bunch of games in flash that was a hit at my school. Then my school changed everything over to Java and I started learning that, along with Flash in another class. Knowledge of VB, MMB, and HTML waned, and by the time I hit college my multitude of side projects ranging from MP3 players to iTunes-like music stores dwindled to nothing, as all but 2 were incomplete failures.

I have never had to make a program for something other than school, and all of my current side projects are small, practical programs. I am now studying for a Computer Engineering degree, taking COT 3002 and re-learning C/C++ that I havent seen since 2002. My web sites are progressing to CSS + Javascript, and eventually I want to use my "massive" programming knowledge to make something "wonderful" that people will enjoy.

-Cool-

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