How old were you when you started coding?

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At age 16 I learned c++. Then a year of html, CSS and PHP.

Unfortunately, I was too wild in my teenage years to really sit down and take advantage of the skills I learned. I stayed in touched with the industry from afar. Never allowing myself to get dirty with code.

I'm 32 and can say I'm in love with the industry. I randomly wish my younger self was able to see hone in on it back then. Regardless, I'm in love with coding and learning Python and Django now.

I've been hacking (read: breaking) computer all my life. But officially, I started coding at 24.

Without knowing current age or the year one started, this is a silly question.

My timeline:
1999 (age 16), coding TI-XX calculators (for fun).
2002 (age 19), coding for the military (professionally for $).

So I'm sitting at 18 years professionally (will be hitting year 19 this summer).

I was 13 years old, started with QBASIC and Pascal in Primary School.
No StackOverflow, only examples from textbook.

I was around five or six. While that might sound impressive to someone, keep in mind that I'm old enough to have grown up when computers shipped with BASIC as the command prompt and a programming book in the box, and clerks in electronics shops (Radio Shack, for example) would try to teach passers-by some BASIC in hopes of hooking someone for a future sale. In other words, the manufacturers did a lot of the heavy lifting, back then.

Oh, a lot of schools (including mine) also experimented a lot with teaching Logo around that time, with or without a physical robot, depending on the school district's budget. Looking back to compare it with today's initiatives to teach people to code, it was a pretty wild time.

(Of course, I had to un-learn a lot of that when I got to college and needed to work with more structured programming languages...)

I had the pleasure of getting introduced to C++ in high school and university. It went so well that it took me around 5 years after graduating to look into coding again.

When I was very young, about 10, I tried to make a pokemon "game" in powerpoint by jumping around to different slides as you clicked on things, but it didn't work very well (surprise!). A couple of years later I was very sore from starting weightlifting (what? I was scared of being bullied when I started high school :) ) and could barely move so I started reading a book on Pascal, a friend had lent me a cd with all his books and I was just browsing to pass the time. In a few weeks I had modified the example code enough that I created a quadratic equations solver using that bhaskara formula. I don't think I've spent more than a week without coding since then (I'm almost 32 now)

Must have been around 14? I was administering a private World of Warcraft server with some friends and wrote small lua scripts and also developed the website and server status systems :D

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I was 11 I started making websites with PHP and then moved to Java and coded runescape private servers xD

14. It was a script on top of mIRC.
    At about 16 I coded something to run Winamp on my computer with a schedule, so I would wake up with music..

I'm now 37.

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Around 12-13, but I just played around. A lot of copy-pasting.

At 15, I figured that I had to actually learn coding concepts. I watched a lot of YouTube videos on PHP and it just clicked. Shortly after, I created my first SaaS before I knew what a SaaS even was.

A couple screenshot from my old website ~2011 😅

https://i.imgur.com/2MO5V.png
https://i.imgur.com/4inGY.png

About 9 or 10.