age started

22

im 23 now but I just turned 23 less than a month ago. =)

ok so ive got plenty of time. lol. im only 13 but i would like to learn asap. what language should i start with?

[edited by - link2213 on May 2, 2004 8:54:13 PM]

at 13 you are doing well. I consider it a great age to learn. I learned BASIC when I was 11 and did it for a few years. (I am 21 now). BASIC taught me some (a very small amount) of the features of programming, at least I learned what an interpreter was :D I now code in C++, Java and Haskell all of which I have been doing for at least two years. I thoroughly wish I had started to learn earlier.

The language you want to learn depends highly upon what it is you want to do. Given that you are on a game development forums, I assume the answer to that question will be gamedev. In which case I would suggest learning C++ or Java. (Though most will say C++).

Either C++ or C#.

I started when I was 16 I think it''s cool that you want to start as early as 13 but you certainly don''t need to feel rushed. My first language was Visual Basic. It was a fun language to start on because you can program simple games on it with realitive ease. My first game was a modified version of Pong I made within 2 months of starting VB. The down side is that it isn''t used much in the industry. Another good starting language is C because everyone in the actual industry uses it. In C however, it takes much longer to get to the point where you can work with graphics. This makes it less fun as a starting language. Personaly, I recomend VB.

I learned C++ at age 14, if I''m not mistaken. I''m 16 at the moment, 17 in June.

ok thanks, i have a book on blitz basic so ill start with that, then ill go to c++ cause i also have a book on that ^_^


btw - yes BigBadBob gamedev IS what i want to learn... i would like to be a videogame developer when i get older......

[edited by - link2213 on May 2, 2004 10:30:37 PM]

I started in QBASIC when I was 9, and migrated to C++ when I was 10.

BASICA at 7
C++ at 8.5
(Been programming C++ for 9 years)

If I remember correctly, I started at 14..
I'm now 16

I started right with C++ and I'm really happy of this choice
It wasn't that hard

[edited by - Hedos on May 3, 2004 11:38:41 PM]

Java at 12.

Asm in the third trimester.

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machine code before my parents met

At 8. Started with BASIC, went on to 6806 asm, then 68000 asm (motorola..) then on to C, got my first compiler/linker from "Fred Fish", someone who sold Free/Shareware on 3.5" discs. Think I paid about $8 for it (hard to remember the exchange rate for SEK-$ back in the late 80'ies, but I think it was around 8 dollars)

Then, I got my first C++ compiler (well, actually CFront wasn't a compiler...). Started hacking Pascal for a while, and then AMOS (if anyone remember that) And there I am..

humm.. let se.. 30 - 8.. 22 years.. and still nothing good gets done. Better start thinking of another hobby, like fishing maybe..
[edit] Darn.. I can't even count numbers
"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." Albert Einstein

[edited by - Rickmeister on May 2, 2004 11:57:28 PM]

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Original post by Chris Hare
Asm in the third trimester.

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damn, i was doing chip design in my third trimester...we should have started a company in the nursery at the hospital.

Started at 10 with Turbo Pascal. But i really started to programm only at 13. (Becouse at 10 i didn''t know what most of my code do, and i couldn''t figure out how if-else works ) Now im 14, doing a top-down shooter with SDL and asking a lot of stupid questions here, in gamedev.net forums

Assembly at 2.

...What? :/

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Original post by Hedos
If I remember correctly, I started at 14..
I''m not 16

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I''m not 16 either.

I started at 13, a year ago.