ages

19, don't remember when or where I learned to program.

I'm 16
I started programming two years ago even though i still can't program
And i like putting water on paper towels and putting them out in the sun so they can dry up and be all wrinkly like old people.

13 here:

Started programming at 10ish-11ish in C++.
I rock at math.
I suck at social studies (I really don't care, all I care is that I do my best in what benefits me, that is, math and science).
Umm... I rock at science too.

Umm... Umm... Yeah..

18

Began programming BASIC in 4th grade, so i guess around 9 years old...

i never was good at mathis true that u need math and sicence to be a good progamer
i have d ands f in bouth those subjects

I'm 18. I sorta fail at life. I'm graduation high this year with the bre minimun in grades required to graduate. I started programing like 2 years ago, did that for like a month and haven't done any programming ever since.

[lol]

16 as of june
Been wanting to make games for years
Actaully started programming about a week before I joined Gamedev
I, too, suck at math.
I can spell fairly well, but my handwriting is horrible.
Uhh... I can cook cheesecake. That should count for something.

I'm 26. Started programming in GW-BASIC at age 9-10, then Q-BASIC (age 11-12), Pascal (age 12), Quake-C (age 18), regular C (age 19), C++/OpenGL on Win32 (age 21), PHP (age 24) and now doing C, Lua, Python on Linux. Oh, and there's about a dozen languages missing in that list that I learned on the side.

Pro:
I pick up languages fast
Jack-of-all-trades

Con:
I suck at math
I suck at shell scripting (but learning)

i'm 18
love math and
programming delphi
and/or
free pascal
i learned to
program when i was
12
by my dad
we made a calculator
together

I'm sorry but somehow those linebreaks make me want to puke.. [rolleyes]
Edit: .. or is it those plastic things i tend to devour when i sit in front of the computer?...

I believe this is accurate (if not, it's pretty close):
I started to program a little bit in VB when I was about 9. At about 10 or 11, I started learning C++ and Python and soon dropped VB completely. When I was 14, I started learning Java, Common Lisp, Scheme, Haskell and the general ideas behind stack-based languages (along with bits and pieces of other languages like Perl, Ruby, Q and OCaml). I recently turned 15 (my birthday is May 12) and I'm learning Icon and Unicon.

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Original post by londonman i never was good at mathis true that u need math and sicence to be a good progamer i have d ands f in bouth those subjects

You should learn math. Not only is it veru useful, but it can be just as fun as any subject. That, or I'm just weird [grin].

most of the time i play runescape do school work and be on my computer or read i like to read alot and draw thats is my life read draw and act like i know every thing about programing when sll i know how to do is helo world but it makes people at my school think i am smart

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Original post by SticksandStones You should learn math. Not only is it veru useful, but it can be just as fun as any subject. That, or I'm just weird [grin].

I envy your weirdness.

i'm 18

Learned HTML at aroun 11 or 12 (ish)
Learned C at 13 (and i'm always learning more)
Learned Flash at 16 (still learning actionscript :-) )
Learned Java at 17
I suck at spelling
I'm rather good at math

I'm 20. Learned to program in summer of 1983.

Quote:

This is going to spell goiter when I'm done

[LOL]

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Original post by CobraMantis I'm 20. Learned to program in summer of 1983. Quote: This is going to spell goiter when I'm done [LOL]

You learned to program while you were a sperm? [lol] I am impressed...

Crikey!!! Is there anyone here that was born in the 70's? :)

Most of you weren't even around when Luke was fighting Darth Vader, or when Olivia Newton John was strutting her stuff on rollerskates looking so lovely. :)

They were defining moments in history.

Did some BASIC on really old hardware for a while when I was 10 or so...

Apple IIc.

Man, that was a cool system. :P

Nowadays I do what everyone does...
C++
(On more modern hardware of course...)

BASIC was fun while it lasted but eh... it's just not enough.
Over the years I went from that to VB, C, then C++ (pretty much... had a few intermediate phases but nothing serious.)

Let's see... I'm 421, according to my ID, but that might just be smudged ink. :D

32 years old. started programming at 10. TI-Basic with a TI 99-4A that i won by writing in a game design for the Atari game M*A*S*H