Lich

So let's hear some stories.

I started out doing web design with html and templates and crap when I was 14 or 15 building a tribute site for the simpsons. Then moved on to full html, then SSI, php, perl, mysql, xml, javascript, etc all for the sake of building websites. I've dabbled a bit in Visual Basic and C just for the sake of it as I always want to learn more. Since I'm pretty decent at it I figure i'll keep presuing programming in all aspects.

OpenLoop

Let's see, I started by watching my older brother programming in QBASIC. By 13, I was able to create small programs and modify existing ones and by 14 I became real good at it. Check out the QBASIC boxing game a made back then, it's on my website under projects. Later I joined college and learned C, C++ and OOP, C#, and picked up visual basic .net on my own. I know how to write html but I'm not so good at it. I almost always use a helper program (Dreamweaver).

tempest

My brother showed me some HTML when i was 13, so i got into HTML and then about 3 months later started dabbling in Visual BASIC. Th e rest is history...

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uman

Programming in TI-BASIC on my calculator.

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Benoit

I started learning HTML when I was 12/13, and started learning C when I was 15,VB when I was 16 and here I am now at 17

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prodigy27c

I started building PC when I was a student to make money, once I had done that I did CNC programming, then started dealing with Moment Weighing Machine's when I was doing dynamic balancing. The programmes where old and DOS based. So i started to learn visual basic and developed a programming in work which was more appealing to the eye and easier to understand (I could already do VBA so it was an easy transfer across). After that I got in HTML and now I have just started C#. Who know what will be next for me.

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Sane

Until I was about 12, we had an extremely old computer with nothing but Qbasic. My dad showed it to me, and without a manual and only knowledge of 2 commands (goto, print) I trial and errored the syntax until I learned the basics of programming. Mastered OOT and Python very quickly, and here I am.

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Infinite Recursion

I think I was about 9 or 10 (25 now)... I picked up a book on one of the old flavors of Basic (Basica-A, XBasic, or something like that). I moved from there to Qbasic. My friend that lived down the street and I started writing programs (or at least trying to) every day. We made text based games and various tiny utilities to help us with our homework. I remember making something for the multiplication tables, lol. Anyhow, I went from Qbasic to Fortran, then Pascal... took a few programming classes in high school (Basic, Turbo Pascal, Fortran) because I had fun programming at home. I decided that programming is what I wanted to do for a living so I went to college for a degree in this field.

From then to now... I have used the languages below... some I am proficient in, others I am only functional in.

PHP, C, C++, C# .NET, Java, Visual Basic 6.0/.NET, SQL, PL/SQL, Html, Dhtml, Xml, CSS, CGI, Perl, Batch, Lisp, Modula, Prolog, Scheme, Tcl/Tk, Javascript, VBScript, Awk, Sed, Unix Script, Python, Smalltalk, Ada, Fortran

I learned through trial-and-error... if something broke, I normally stayed up all night working on it.

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skuinders

In high school I took some elective computer classes:

PC Hardware 1, 2
CAD
Honors Programming (C++)
Web Programming (HTML, JavaScript)
AP Computer Science (C++)

That's pretty much where I started.

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Lich

Wow dude, your school kicks ass. The most we had computer wise Was Computer applications A-D (Word through Access) and this joint vetnure between us and another district where you could take html (which I didn't bother with since I already knew it) or VB 6 (which I didn't see the point as .NET was right around the corner).

The year after I graduated they were supposed to start offering cisco networking, but they tried using the guy they have for the MS office apps teach it and, no surprise, he couldn't pass certification. They'd already ordered books and everything