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You started writing code when you were five years old?
by cactusplant7374 3y ago
You started writing code when you were five years old?
- simianpirate 3y agoI was 6 years old when I started with Apple Basic.
- seehafer 3y agoSame. I’m fact I suspect a large proportion of HN’s audience started around this age.
- wenc 3y agoI started at age 6. My brother started at age 5. Lots of us started on Apples and IBM PCs and back in the day Amigas etc. We didn’t have a lot of entertainment back then.
- MenhirMike 3y agoOne of the greatest things of 80s micros were built-in BASIC interpreters. Turn it on and program immediately. Combined with source code listings to type in from magazines, you almost had to resist picking up some programming skills. Even the command to load a game was a form of programming already, even though 6-year old me didn't "get" it until a bit later. We have easy access to so much amazing technology for free in today's day and age, but we IMHO really lost a lot from the glorious days of "38911 Basic Bytes Free - Ready."
- BirAdam 3y agoSame for me on not immediately “getting it.” I started with an Atari 800XL and wrote some small stuff but didn’t realize I was programming until a few years later. It was fun tho. I miss that simplicity.
- tomjakubowski 3y agoThe shells on the Apple II and on Commodore PCs were BASIC interpreters. So it was really easy to get started programming even without knowing it.
- vidarh 3y agoYes. I started with BASIC on a VIC-20