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Hard question. :D
The first time, I think, was on my first computer, a C64. I tried some BASIC, but only simple arithmetic stuff. This was 1994.
I didn't code until 2002, when I tried some Flash, PHP and Half-Life modding.
In high-school, I had two classes on programming. One about C for two years and one about assembler for one year. This was 2002.
The first programming job I had in 2006, where I cobbled together some PHP pages.
Woah... I was born in '94. 😁
Started coding in college 4 years ago, dropped out, started coding for money 3 years ago, and now I'm a Developer Advocate. So I basically talk about coding... for money. 😐
That's so interesting--how did you land that job?
Yes, it is! I thought about doing dev-advocacy too, but I don't even know where to start :D
Well, to be honest, it was a 2 year journey. I started writing about coding and built up a following on Medium. This was followed by actively contributing to my local dev community and teaching programming courses. I started speaking at Meetups on a regular basis, ultimately organizing and hosting them myself.
All of this contributed to technical knowledge, writing prowess and people skills, which are crucial if you want to be a Developer Advocate.
(Feel free to message me directly if you want a more detailed explanation.)
In 1981 I got my first computer, the ZX81. I typed in computer programs from magazines and modified them to do new things, learning to program. In high school I wrote a messaging system for the students on the BBC Micros. By 19 I had moved to the PC and was running my own bulletin board using software I had written in GWBASIC.
Here is a interview I did several years ago for DownToTheWire, a Internet History in New Zealand.
downtothewire.co.nz/poison-1992/
OMG same. I was a member of the Sinclair Users Club back in 1982. Being the party animals we were, we used to meet on Friday nights at the Chess Club on Bealey Ave, in Christchurch. I was just typing stuff in from magazines, but my neighbour Simon Glass (year older than me, now an engineer at Google in CA, go figure) was a bit of a prodigy and used to come over with programs he'd developed in hex and written on bits of paper, type them in and bingo we'd have something cool and mysterious happening on that little computer.
Around that time, Tron appeared in movie theatres, so off we went and it was a blast. After that, I remember hanging out so badly for good graphics hardware. The next couple of decades went so SLOOOOWLY..
Must have been in 1982, around my 12th I guess. Funny part was that I did not have a computer, but I was fascinated by them, so I borrowed a C64 book from my parent's friends and read it from cover to cover and back and started programming on paper due to lack of a real computer. Later - 1983/1984 - at school, we got access to MSX computers and later to Tandy TRS80 computers. I bought my own MSX2 in 1985. As of today, I am still a developer :)
I Started learning Android in late 2016-early 2017 from my old $90 cheap ass phone, it was just a hobby then but when I saw myself progressing much further than I expected the addiction began and now I'm pretty decent with Android and also starting to learn full-stack web development which I like. Here is my website if anyone wants to check: mohamedelidrissi.ml
How does mobile programming feel. I think the phone keypad experience should not be very good.
I actually got used to it but I'm also using my laptop
Just about 2 years, I first tried some C and Front course with FreeCodeCamp and the CS50 on HarvardX course for basics.
After that, I learned Java and became a developer. Now I code in Javascript mostly
I wrote my first actual program on a computer around 1978 in a college math class. I bought a Timex-Sinclair computer in late 1982 and a Radio Shack Color Computer in 1984.
My first paid programming job, a contract, was in 1984, writing a inventory tracking program for a logging company in a non-standard CPM BASIC. I did a lot of tech support work from 1985 to 1988, learning a lot of programming during that time, mainly C and MASM. I began my first full time job doing software development in 1988.
Off an on, since the early 80s, 1981 or 1982, probably. I went to a magnet school for 5th and 6th grade, and learned on the early Apple IIs. I remember learning Logo/Turtle Graphics and then Applesoft Basic. We didn't have any programming classes in junior high/middle school, so I didn't taking classes again until high school. My dad bought a TI/99-4A at some sort of going out of business sale, so I did do a little bit of basic programming on that, but I don't remember when that was exactly, and it ended up being used more for video games.
Started C-64 BASIC in the late 1980s, Pascal on DOS after, and doing more serious work using Perl and bash scripting in the mid-1990s. It's been quite a ride and tools changed pretty much ever since, maybe except for Python which always has been around for certain taks. :)
I think I started now almost 10 years ago, when I was 12. Two of my friends created a website and I was really fascinated about it, went home, printed out 140 pages of HTML and JS tutorials, and read all of it the same day. Fun times :)
8th grade (about 13 years old), in an afterschool program that taught basic html/css/js on Geocities.
I'll never forget my black-background with red-text Metallica fan site with a "views" counter. 😅
In high school I picked up "C++ for Dummies" and did some maze-navigating Lego Mindstorms. The school was an Engineering Magnet school, so we got to work with a lot of cool stuff, even making a rocket that broke the sound barrier. I helped put together the electronic payload...but it was destroyed in the fall.