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[{"user_id": 5591, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298220192.424135, "message": "Apple Basic on a IIgs when I was 9, but the first time I did anything real was hacking on WWIV v4.x using C around the age of 13.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154107}, {"user_id": 14022, "stars": [{"date_created": 1298269267.0280931, "user_id": 5487}], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298219484.5813789, "message": "I started about the same age as you. I made money at my school by creating a pure html adult site that I burnt on to CDs and sold them to all of the kids at school with a slow internet connection.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154079}, {"user_id": 8029, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298220303.675416, "message": "I started with VBA, then Ruby and then Python", "group_id": 95, "id": 154120}, {"user_id": 5993, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298220303.8291781, "message": "23 -Turbo Pascal.....it's been 15 years....and I'm still shit at programming :)", "group_id": 95, "id": 154121}, {"user_id": 14022, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298219643.5150609, "message": "Then PHP for a few years and now Python.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154093}, {"user_id": 14000, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298219541.226284, "message": "Started learning HTML when I was around 11 and moved in to PHP, et 'al at 14", "group_id": 95, "id": 154083}, {"user_id": 13837, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298219486.7440801, "message": "ANSI C at 15", "group_id": 95, "id": 154080}, {"user_id": 14022, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298219594.407059, "message": "I got into vbscript/asp. bleh.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154086}, {"user_id": 8936, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298220398.101083, "message": "In 1984, I took a programming class for Apple BASIC on an Apple ][+ in the sixth grade. I must have been nine years old or so.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154130}, {"user_id": 5487, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298219021.1967821, "message": "I started HTML when I was 13 years old, now 17.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154059}, {"user_id": 8029, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298220323.9429679, "message": "Delphi, C++, C#, Ruby on Rails", "group_id": 95, "id": 154122}, {"user_id": 8029, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298220334.8469861, "message": "(money languages)", "group_id": 95, "id": 154124}, {"user_id": 13024, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298221513.4643619, "message": "GW-Basic at 9 or 10.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154164}, {"user_id": 9108, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298219581.270431, "message": "I started with C++ when I was 14.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154084}, {"user_id": 1307, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298220076.1308019, "message": "I started with a couple of weird languages similar to Basic and Windows Batch scripts at the age of 12 because that's what books the local library had", "group_id": 95, "id": 154102}, {"user_id": 1307, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298220128.3029189, "message": "I quickly moved into Visual Basic when I realized it was similar but actually \"usable\" for real world development.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154103}, {"user_id": 13614, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298220299.1991069, "message": "I started coding in BASIC on the Apple II+ around 1980 or so. After that, 6502 assembly language. Then dBASE II, dBASE III+, FoxPro, Cobol, 4th Dimension, Perl, C, Java, etc., over the years.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154119}, {"user_id": 53, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298220799.5928249, "message": "TI-BASIC for the TI-82 when I was 13", "group_id": 95, "id": 154147}, {"user_id": 11129, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298221774.6849821, "message": "TI Basic all the way!  7th grade.  8th grade I Graduated to C++, then HTML / PHP.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154165}, {"user_id": 671, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298222389.2720621, "message": "started with zx81 BASIC at 9", "group_id": 95, "id": 154185}, {"user_id": 671, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298222452.549742, "message": "zx81 BASIC to BASIC on TI99, C64, C128, TRS80, Apple ][ and IBM PC.  Moved in to 6502 assembly on c128.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154186}, {"user_id": 3466, "stars": [{"date_created": 1298269339.845613, "user_id": 5487}], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298222786.2569151, "message": "8 years old, Commodore PET, BASIC. Also TRS-80 (model III) around the same time. ACOS/MACOS (Apple ][ BBS programming langauges) in high school, some 6502 assembly, then onto C in college.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154198}, {"user_id": 7172, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298222131.2045989, "message": "I hardly know any coding... yet, but check out this by @taptouchclick http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038590 He's currently developing an awesome email app called @mailtoapp I recommend checking it out for sure. It's in secret beta, but will be released soon. Follow that twitter handle to get on the beta list.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154169}, {"user_id": 12427, "stars": [{"date_created": 1298269345.2503481, "user_id": 5487}], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298223015.193943, "message": "9 years old. AMOS on the Amiga. Then a bit of VB before C++ during my teens", "group_id": 95, "id": 154214}, {"user_id": 8327, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298223041.588486, "message": "Age 9ish; dos batch files and pretty soon after vbs & vba", "group_id": 95, "id": 154215}, {"user_id": 5195, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298224184.802938, "message": "QBasic very briefly at school at 15.  Then C at 18. My first substantial program was N*N size matrix multiplications(first created a non-recursive version, then a recursive one when I learned about it), Moving the Horse on a chess board in a way that it covers all boxes without touch any box more than one time.", "group_id": 95, "id": 154257}, {"user_id": 5195, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298224574.845439, "message": "I also worked(with a friend) on a small multiple choice quiz program in a DOS environment. While the quiz program itself was not anything great, we actually implemented a (stupid) widget system for  things like windows, dialog boxes, radio buttons, input boxes, checkboxes etc. We had started C only 2 months ago and had no idea that conio lib in Borlan C had everything I wanted and more(I got the idea after seeing the widgets in the banking software running inside DOS used by my bank branch)", "group_id": 95, "id": 154268}, {"user_id": 7444, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298241339.562623, "message": "VB 6.0 at 12 years old =]   good times...jesus I thought I would have been the youngest beginner here.. how the hell did you guys even have the attention span to work with that stuff at 8 and 9!?", "group_id": 95, "id": 154959}, {"user_id": 1357, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298241939.2844751, "message": "I started building websites when I was 13, then I hit a programming-plateau throughout high school and spent the majority of my free time learning how to draw, design and model things in lightwave/3d studio max. Now that I'm in college I've dived into programming once again and picked up the typical CS spectrum of skills: java, c, c++, 68k assembly. In my free time I'm learning python, ruby, javascript, and all sorts of other web-centric technologies.", "group_id": 95, "id": 155013}, {"user_id": 651, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298243831.9595561, "message": "I played with some Basic and Visual FoxPro when I was about 12 and I had Delphi and PHP in school as an optional course. However I wouldn't call what I did there coding. I didn't really get into coding until my third semester of university.", "group_id": 95, "id": 155118}, {"user_id": 3531, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298244236.067328, "message": "Don't know exact age on coding. Started either by scripting for mIRC (hey, that counts!) or with JavaScript + HTML (but I can't seem to decide which I did first, which determines the year). I did consultation for an insurance company when I was in seventh grade, and for neighbors before that.", "group_id": 95, "id": 155121}, {"user_id": 7444, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247474.891798, "message": "RPG bots ? What really?", "group_id": 95, "id": 155201}, {"user_id": 719, "stars": [{"date_created": 1298247635.657557, "user_id": 3531}], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247520.717061, "message": "Did any of you guys ever check out Eldarion's MY TECHNE? (http://mytechne.com/)", "group_id": 95, "id": 155202}, {"user_id": 7444, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247822.04019, "message": "@micrypt Yeah I only recognize like 15% of these languages lol", "group_id": 95, "id": 155215}, {"user_id": 3531, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247624.6486239, "message": "@micrypt Ooh, neat. I'm going to check that out more, have always wanted to catalogue my technology history a bit better.", "group_id": 95, "id": 155204}, {"user_id": 3531, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247221.007355, "message": "@Jbudone Wish I still had the floppies that I'd saved the mIRC work on (maybe I do!). I used to run a fairly popular (~130-200 people) Yu-Gi-Oh IRC Network for XeroCreative and during that time made \"awesome\" (read: bad colour schemes) mIRC themes and so on.", "group_id": 95, "id": 155194}, {"user_id": 7444, "stars": [{"date_created": 1298247121.689486, "user_id": 3531}, {"date_created": 1298269166.3232701, "user_id": 13806}], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298246708.8795569, "message": "Hahah yeah mIRC scripting was fun", "group_id": 95, "id": 155176}, {"user_id": 3531, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247558.8878219, "message": "@Jbudone Pretty sure, yeah, but I don't remember the names. It'd track HP and similar stats.", "group_id": 95, "id": 155203}, {"user_id": 11864, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247704.294723, "message": "I started coding in 1993 with either quick basic or MS DOS batch", "group_id": 95, "id": 155207}, {"user_id": 7444, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247335.90517, "message": "@michaelschade I used to love those scripts. And the bots with those games or silly quotes and stuff =]", "group_id": 95, "id": 155197}, {"user_id": 3531, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247449.1182461, "message": "@Jbudone Right on, yes! Quotes always made me happy, and I think we had some role playing-based bots. Also used to love the Elmer Fudd UnrealIRCd module", "group_id": 95, "id": 155199}, {"user_id": 7444, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247724.0525579, "message": "@micrypt Yeah this looks pretty cool", "group_id": 95, "id": 155209}, {"user_id": 719, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247726.8032329, "message": "My TECHNE's intro text: \"This site lets you track your technology history. We started with programming languages, added operating systems and, most recently, text editors. We'll continue to add more over time.\"", "group_id": 95, "id": 155211}, {"user_id": 719, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247781.9826751, "message": "@Jbudone @michaelschade Yeah, there's a whole bunch of pretty obscure languages on there.", "group_id": 95, "id": 155213}, {"user_id": 719, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247841.5246551, "message": "6 people with Fortran 66... Now, that's retro.", "group_id": 95, "id": 155216}, {"user_id": 3531, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247851.8520141, "message": "@micrypt Hmm, and text editors? Not sure that I need to be documenting how very fond I was of pico/nano.", "group_id": 95, "id": 155217}, {"user_id": 3531, "stars": [{"date_created": 1298247899.1070781, "user_id": 719}], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298247891.601423, "message": "(Used to swear by that editor until I finally caved to pressure and read up on vim)", "group_id": 95, "id": 155219}, {"user_id": 3751, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298251964.1855459, "message": "at age 12, Apple BASIC and Logo", "group_id": 95, "id": 155485}, {"user_id": 3751, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298252002.3560579, "message": "@evilbot image me apple ][", "group_id": 95, "id": 155487}, {"user_id": 5591, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298254476.409169, "message": "@Jbudone Can't say I had the attention span to do much at 9, but I was able to learn basic i/o and goto/if statements because I wanted to write text games. Unfortunately, I quickly outgrew the little book that came with the Apple IIgs and I never really got past a few \"Choose-your-own-adventure\"-like prompts. I eventually got sidetracked, but it set the stage for learning later in middle school when I registered WWIV so I could get the source and modify my BBS.", "group_id": 95, "id": 155548}, {"user_id": 3655, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298254692.4769001, "message": "Basic on a RadioShack MC-10 at age 12 (quite a while back).", "group_id": 95, "id": 155555}, {"user_id": 2672, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298253101.8964219, "message": "started doing html 10 years ago, css 5 years ago, and finally got into javascript this last year", "group_id": 95, "id": 155512}, {"user_id": 52, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298254471.278676, "message": "When I was 12, QBASIC. Started learning HTML around the same time.", "group_id": 95, "id": 155546}, {"user_id": 3952, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298262510.2116001, "message": "15 - TI-85 calculator (whatever language it used)... now 27 doing Ruby/Python/Java/Objective-C/whatever.", "group_id": 95, "id": 155999}, {"user_id": 4375, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298264073.884028, "message": "I started coding a very long time ago - BASIC on a VIC20.  I also did punch cards on an old machine at my school.  Good times!", "group_id": 95, "id": 156092}, {"user_id": 4028, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298265556.8522429, "message": "loooooooooog cat", "group_id": 95, "id": 156753}, {"user_id": 2633, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298266800.9806299, "message": "HTML + CSS in high school, around 1999/2000. I had my own little CDN network of 3 or 4 Geocities accounts. They had small limits on the total size of your site, so I uploaded bigger things like images and what not to the other sites.", "group_id": 95, "id": 156787}, {"user_id": 2971, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298266817.4697211, "message": "BASIC on an Apple //c, in high school.", "group_id": 95, "id": 156788}, {"user_id": 8013, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298267932.353389, "message": "GW-BASIC around 1991 when I was 10 on a 20MHz 286 with MS-DOS 3.3. Then when MS-DOS 5.0 came out, a friend of mine with a 386 copied QBasic and I ran with that.", "group_id": 95, "id": 156812}, {"user_id": 5487, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298269280.541373, "message": "@malero Nice ;D haha", "group_id": 95, "id": 156857}, {"user_id": 5487, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298269393.877234, "message": "Wow, you guys started at very young age, that's really cool", "group_id": 95, "id": 156861}, {"user_id": 7999, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298275662.5571251, "message": "I started with Logo in 2nd grade :)", "group_id": 95, "id": 157152}, {"user_id": 7999, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298275796.9216061, "message": "Learned HTML around 13 or so, TI-BASIC on my TI-89, Tried to learn C/C++ when I was in high school but it didn't click then. Learned Java, C/C++, Scheme, Perl, Javascript, etc in College.", "group_id": 95, "id": 157155}, {"user_id": 11294, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298276612.8508661, "message": "TurboPascal with 14 I guess.", "group_id": 95, "id": 157167}, {"user_id": 13061, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298278137.7069149, "message": "Started with GW-Basic  when I was 7-8, then Turbopascal around 11. This was a few years ago now.", "group_id": 95, "id": 157232}, {"user_id": 14320, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298278561.2400899, "message": "cool", "group_id": 95, "id": 157258}, {"user_id": 13492, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298286203.0838921, "message": "I started BASIC when I was 11 years old, now 38.", "group_id": 95, "id": 157889}, {"user_id": 719, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298290849.3606081, "message": "@courtland QBasic +1! Years later and I'm actually writing a QBasic implementation in Go. :)", "group_id": 95, "id": 158227}, {"user_id": 5582, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298290962.3672669, "message": "@micrypt do you have a spec for the language?", "group_id": 95, "id": 158241}, {"user_id": 719, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298292381.363193, "message": "@0chris Sadly, no. There's no sign of a formal specification (thanks Microsoft!) so I'm largely doing a port of a JavaScript implementation and doing some reverse-engineering to smooth out warts. Some of the old books have fairly detailed content though. \n\nIt's just a hobby in my severely limited free time, so I'm not being too fussy. :)", "group_id": 95, "id": 158389}, {"user_id": 5582, "stars": [{"date_created": 1298293917.121289, "user_id": 719}], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298292595.0042379, "message": "@micrypt I goes it's done when gorilla.bas is playable :)", "group_id": 95, "id": 158396}, {"user_id": 13755, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298296369.9368169, "message": "AmigaOS batch files when I was about age 11, tiny bit of QBasic at 12, AcornBasic when I was about 12, learned HTML at 13, Perl CGI scripts at 14, mIRC Script at 16.", "group_id": 95, "id": 158694}, {"user_id": 14472, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298318659.9846499, "message": "28,php. First site democratic.ly, second app contexium.com, did 3 other email based apps that are sitting on my machine", "group_id": 95, "id": 166019}, {"user_id": 2482, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298323689.4587491, "message": "HTML with 10, C++ (obviously only the very, very basics) and PHP with about 13. Various languages afterwards with python being my all-time favorite.", "group_id": 95, "id": 170530}, {"user_id": 14505, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298333553.2324209, "message": "Started with HTML around 12-13  spent time with .NET *gag* 16-17 and java/php 18 - Am now  picking up on Common Lisp and Arc which I adore at 22.", "group_id": 95, "id": 175758}, {"user_id": 396, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298372731.207855, "message": "HTML (didnt know that wasnt really  \"programming\") at age ~12, TI BASIC age ~15, PHP age ~16, C/C++ age 18", "group_id": 95, "id": 178500}, {"user_id": 14659, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298372424.359791, "message": "Basic for pocket pcs at 11 - Amiga Basic at 13 - C and Amos for Amiga at 14 , C++ at 15, Visual Basic at 18, Visual C++ at 19, .Net at 24 till now (32)", "group_id": 95, "id": 178448}, {"user_id": 6718, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298377447.0615039, "message": "16 Python...skip 10 years later and I finally realized there was something else going on in the space. Now Ruby (2 years), Php, Cocoa", "group_id": 95, "id": 178773}, {"user_id": 14632, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298377936.0751841, "message": "18 HTML, PHP - 14 YEARS - just skipped that and moved to RoR", "group_id": 95, "id": 178804}, {"user_id": 14763, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298402193.5778821, "message": "I've started with Python just as of a few months ago", "group_id": 95, "id": 181596}, {"user_id": 14766, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298402271.6537919, "message": "Visual basic 6 9 years ago", "group_id": 95, "id": 181618}, {"user_id": 14936, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298423270.289505, "message": "Basic, then QuickBasic when i was 9 or 10. Then got sidetracked for about 10 years before starting up again with html/css, VisualBasic, C# and then php/jquery now.", "group_id": 95, "id": 185332}, {"user_id": 14939, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298426014.834384, "message": "I screwed around with HTML when I was in like 5th grade. In 7th grade I took a course where we used VB or C++.  Can't quite remember.", "group_id": 95, "id": 185467}, {"user_id": 14970, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298425874.377306, "message": "I started coding about 7 years ago, with PHP. Mainly started through hacking vBulletin", "group_id": 95, "id": 185464}, {"user_id": 14971, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298426082.1049659, "message": "i started with javascript", "group_id": 95, "id": 185469}, {"user_id": 15102, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298442899.874248, "message": "HTML at 13, C/C++ at 14... markup is up in the air with \"programming.\" More like layout", "group_id": 95, "id": 186075}, {"user_id": 2293, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298442564.0619259, "message": "Started with writing mIRC TCL scripts. Then wrote an IRC bot in C (this was in the late 90's). Started learning PHP/MySQL, then learned C++, Java and a bit of Python. I've been working with PHP since version 3 (1999).", "group_id": 95, "id": 186066}, {"user_id": 1692, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298447854.8679509, "message": "HTML is not a programming language guys..", "group_id": 95, "id": 186199}, {"user_id": 10300, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298459428.7541881, "message": "DIV, from DIV game studio", "group_id": 95, "id": 186778}, {"user_id": 5323, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298459253.528842, "message": "QuickBASIC at 12 or something.", "group_id": 95, "id": 186771}, {"user_id": 15141, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298459834.981575, "message": "Started with BASIC at 10, then Pascal at 12.", "group_id": 95, "id": 186805}, {"user_id": 12535, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298462588.033407, "message": "First BASIC program at ~12 yr old. Then started getting serious about programming at around 15, through a PHP and a MySQL book. Learned HTML/JS mostly online.", "group_id": 95, "id": 187060}, {"user_id": 15194, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298462670.1009769, "message": "AMOS on Amiga 500 was when it really got fun", "group_id": 95, "id": 187067}, {"user_id": 12535, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298462649.2835979, "message": "@arnewieding When you're 13, HTML is a programming language. ask any 13 yr old kid ;)", "group_id": 95, "id": 187066}, {"user_id": 15194, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298462584.9600511, "message": "Basic and Noddy on Memotech 512", "group_id": 95, "id": 187059}, {"user_id": 5711, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298462610.409857, "message": "QBasic at 9 or so. The memories!", "group_id": 95, "id": 187061}, {"user_id": 5711, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298468519.6457679, "message": "For a lot of people, it may be a combination of the two. I self-studied in high school, then studied \u201ctechnical informatics\u201d. By that time I was alright at programming already but school was invaluable for working in teams, with tight deadlines, and dealing with changing requirements from clients\u2026 er, teachers.", "group_id": 95, "id": 187484}, {"user_id": 14970, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298468314.0001481, "message": "I'd be curious to know how many of us are formally educated in computer science, while others learned through self-teaching and hacking.", "group_id": 95, "id": 187469}, {"user_id": 15223, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298468105.240267, "message": "Basic on my Commodore C64, 7 years old - it was more like copying from book than real coding", "group_id": 95, "id": 187461}, {"user_id": 15252, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298474778.4916241, "message": "11 years old. C64 BASIC. PEEK. POKE.", "group_id": 95, "id": 188010}, {"user_id": 831, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298473024.0972631, "message": "Must plug here my friend's site: http://mytechne.com/ :)", "group_id": 95, "id": 187895}, {"user_id": 12775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298473154.7574329, "message": "There's a site just for this purpose: http://mytechne.com/", "group_id": 95, "id": 187899}, {"user_id": 12775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298473173.5400031, "message": "@uche - that's just freaky", "group_id": 95, "id": 187902}, {"user_id": 4375, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298473507.9473341, "message": "BASIC back around 1980. Think VIC 20 with a cassette drive.  Also Radio Shack Model I, Apple ][, cards and anything I could get my hands on.", "group_id": 95, "id": 187924}, {"user_id": 4375, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298475551.3351951, "message": "@kamyar Wow. I actually forgot about peeks and pokes! It was fun to find out what parts of memory did what and how I could use them to do things.", "group_id": 95, "id": 188125}, {"user_id": 15252, "stars": [{"date_created": 1298476710.2406271, "user_id": 4375}], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298475991.458498, "message": "@dabent you know, it was in essence Assembly in Basic clothing.", "group_id": 95, "id": 188193}, {"user_id": 15252, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298476075.6294849, "message": "Anybody remembers Schaum's Programming Basic?", "group_id": 95, "id": 188207}, {"user_id": 4375, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298475675.954082, "message": "Life changing moment: When my soon-to-be-best friend ran across the gym waving one of those green and white line printer print outs yelling \"BASIC programming language!  You've got to learn this!\"", "group_id": 95, "id": 188143}, {"user_id": 5195, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298488553.0104799, "message": "@kamyar yes yes me. I read the Schaum's Series C programming.  Problems and exercises were good in there. Used to love solving those", "group_id": 95, "id": 190064}, {"user_id": 15501, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298517763.8181069, "message": "13 yrs old. PHP...I feel terrible about it but yeah. Since fixed my terrible programming habits acquired from hacking it all day.", "group_id": 95, "id": 195005}, {"user_id": 45, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298541754.4069641, "message": "12 years old, writing simple games in BASIC on my TI-83+ instead of paying attention in class", "group_id": 95, "id": 196514}, {"user_id": 15596, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298553226.571676, "message": "Commodore C116 Basic, DOS qbasic, Turbo Pascal.....", "group_id": 95, "id": 197369}, {"user_id": 15516, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298552839.5268941, "message": "HTML, although you could call that control the turtle game they give you when you're like 9 a programming language hah.", "group_id": 95, "id": 197323}, {"user_id": 15597, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298553205.315686, "message": "Basic on an IBM 5150, I had to figure out how to hack Snake to give a life instead of taking one away when you died.", "group_id": 95, "id": 197368}, {"user_id": 831, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298565857.7630191, "message": "re: Schaum, I've used so many Schaum's series books I can hardly pinpoint which any more :)", "group_id": 95, "id": 199035}, {"user_id": 15292, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298565657.0783551, "message": "@AndrewBrackin I believe you're referring to Logo http://bit.ly/ZBydj", "group_id": 95, "id": 198982}, {"user_id": 831, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298565813.706681, "message": "@collypops :)", "group_id": 95, "id": 199026}, {"user_id": 15519, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298593707.0343089, "message": "9 years old Commodore BASIC 1982", "group_id": 95, "id": 204416}, {"user_id": 15519, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298593804.4221699, "message": "@AndrewBrackin you're talking about Logo (with the turtle) but I think it counts better as a language than HTML!", "group_id": 95, "id": 204428}, {"user_id": 12108, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298599167.0049729, "message": "Wow, I think it was Microsoft Basic on a TRS-80 Model 100 in the mid-80s.  Or possibly logo, although that was probably 3rd grade.  So that was probably slightly later.", "group_id": 95, "id": 204995}, {"user_id": 15929, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298636116.40098, "message": "1st code: qbasic age 11ish, product: irc script (built on top of mIRC) age 13 i think...", "group_id": 95, "id": 207387}, {"user_id": 1266, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298741362.837183, "message": "Visual Basic at 16", "group_id": 95, "id": 214983}, {"user_id": 9013, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298743158.9629841, "message": "C at age 12. The only programming book in the school's library used that language. A friend's big brother was asked to download a compiler.", "group_id": 95, "id": 215057}, {"user_id": 6310, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298743800.7664499, "message": "I started with QBASIC in 1989", "group_id": 95, "id": 215121}, {"user_id": 6439, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298765450.547215, "message": "I started with a Logo programming class on an Atari 800 with a summer school class between 1st and 2nd grade, which would be about 1983 if my math is right.  Moved on to Basic and Pascal in high school.  Taught myself C and C++ about the same time.  Learned Perl in 1997 and used it pretty much exclusively until 2007 when I moved to Python entirely.", "group_id": 95, "id": 216019}, {"user_id": 15438, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298767081.494051, "message": "I learned C++ in high school, but went onto become a frontend developer.", "group_id": 95, "id": 216044}, {"user_id": 4375, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298777996.908613, "message": "If you're lucky, I'll bore you with photos of other books I've read.", "group_id": 95, "id": 216367}, {"user_id": 4375, "stars": [{"date_created": 1298958484.356518, "user_id": 2482}, {"date_created": 1299636257.497061, "user_id": 1661}], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298777832.897696, "message": "My C book from WAY back: http://i.imgur.com/Hq7nt.jpg Still have it.", "group_id": 95, "id": 216363}, {"user_id": 15639, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298778603.4815509, "message": "BASIC from that big old Compaq BASIC manual...in 1984.", "group_id": 95, "id": 216384}, {"user_id": 15011, "stars": [{"date_created": 1298799022.6405029, "user_id": 4375}], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298778823.2012191, "message": "Didn't get started til the 3rd edition? Noob :P", "group_id": 95, "id": 216393}, {"user_id": 14930, "stars": [{"date_created": 1298799014.4812031, "user_id": 4375}], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298784320.0894401, "message": "10 BASIC on the TRS-80, Baby!", "group_id": 95, "id": 216573}, {"user_id": 14930, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298784327.375499, "message": "20 goto 10", "group_id": 95, "id": 216575}, {"user_id": 4375, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298799071.5658951, "message": "@RobLourens I was a late bloomer, too busy with BASIC and Pascal until then. :-)", "group_id": 95, "id": 216877}, {"user_id": 13024, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298816742.3140099, "message": "@dabent bring it on!", "group_id": 95, "id": 217237}, {"user_id": 16260, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298817020.712229, "message": "BASIC on the Luxor ABC 80 when I was 7 and 68k Asm on the Commodore Amiga when I was 12. C When I was 16 and Objective-C when I was 26. I'm now 36.", "group_id": 95, "id": 217242}, {"user_id": 11834, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298841732.7324841, "message": "Extended BASIC on TI99/4A and TMS9900 Asm when I was 12 in 1982.", "group_id": 95, "id": 220939}, {"user_id": 12780, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298842596.8512521, "message": "Does programming these HP calculators count as a first language? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_calculators", "group_id": 95, "id": 221085}, {"user_id": 9233, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298911595.404259, "message": "12-ish with DOS batch files, moved to BASIC and then to TI-BASIC on my TI-86 in HS. Currently doing Ruby, C++, moving towards Obj-C and kinda OWN HTML/CSS and hack JS and PHP as needed.", "group_id": 95, "id": 227122}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298938796.3535249, "message": "The first thing I can recall programming was this text based adventure game in Logo with Sean Parker when we were kids.  But alas we could not finish it because we ran out of memory on the Atari.  I guess our vision was too grand.  Hah, I forgot all about that until right now thinking about the answer for this thread.", "group_id": 95, "id": 230492}, {"user_id": 5053, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298954135.4969311, "message": "my first programming language i played was Turbopascal. I know its old but it worth esp. for beginner. I miss those days typing in dos command:   cd tp/bin/tp and hit enter :D", "group_id": 95, "id": 231814}, {"user_id": 14418, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298953041.0866361, "message": "First language I played with was Logo. It was a book fair in Mexico City where they had these new things called computers. I was able to move the 'turtle' up and down, left and right. It was also my first 'pair programming' experience since I had to share the computer with another kid. Good times.", "group_id": 95, "id": 231710}, {"user_id": 16136, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298956841.4456229, "message": "11 ... Bought a book at a book fair called \"Programming Games in BASIC\" and went to work on the Commodore 64!", "group_id": 95, "id": 232021}, {"user_id": 779, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298957912.4037819, "message": "TurboPascal too :( but it was nasty, I even preferred Basic to a certain extent", "group_id": 95, "id": 232105}, {"user_id": 8824, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1298988414.236414, "message": "My first language was ZX BASIC on the ZX Spectrum 48K when I was 8. Over the years I've migrated through QBASIC, Turbo Pascal, C, C++, Delphi, SWI-Prolog, SQL, VB3 through VB6, VB.NET, C# with all the other accoutrements (JavaScript, XML etc).", "group_id": 95, "id": 234771}, {"user_id": 1463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299016796.6622341, "message": "I started with Pascal :( and C/C++", "group_id": 95, "id": 239496}, {"user_id": 6366, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299017701.4988439, "message": "7 years old", "group_id": 95, "id": 239804}, {"user_id": 16929, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299019561.4936919, "message": "I created my first infinite loop using QBasic on Win3.1 when I was 11 years old", "group_id": 95, "id": 240885}, {"user_id": 13893, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299020566.7065189, "message": "13 y/o QBasic for a short while, then switched to Pascal", "group_id": 95, "id": 241301}, {"user_id": 17394, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299022136.075896, "message": "1981, 11 years old, BASIC on an IBM PC Jr", "group_id": 95, "id": 241780}, {"user_id": 16810, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299025953.4968121, "message": "I was 21 and it was 3 years ago, right as I was finishing art school. I wish I'd discovered it earlier, now it's all I do.", "group_id": 95, "id": 242273}, {"user_id": 16822, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299032309.441211, "message": "and before that on the radio shack color computer", "group_id": 95, "id": 242556}, {"user_id": 16900, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299026858.0437191, "message": "haven't yet, but I've wanted to learn, my tech elective in school this semester is a VB class, very amateurish stuff i'm sure.", "group_id": 95, "id": 242338}, {"user_id": 16822, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299032237.5860109, "message": "BACK IN THE MAIN FRAME DAYS WHEN I WAS GOING TO OCC-FORTRAIN-APL RPG", "group_id": 95, "id": 242549}, {"user_id": 17469, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299035330.984128, "message": "1988 BASIC", "group_id": 95, "id": 242870}, {"user_id": 17578, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299057500.5417559, "message": "1969 Honeywell Assembler (octal)", "group_id": 95, "id": 245771}, {"user_id": 11647, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299057965.0748711, "message": "Logo ( AKA LISP for kids) back when I was 6", "group_id": 95, "id": 245801}, {"user_id": 17469, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299094920.354759, "message": "@elg0nz Nice.. Remember ANIMAL?", "group_id": 95, "id": 252232}, {"user_id": 17828, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299095515.881043, "message": "I started when I was 24. I'm 26 now. (I'm slow) I started with C#.", "group_id": 95, "id": 252311}, {"user_id": 2343, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299094963.0625761, "message": "TI-83 when I was around 13 I think.", "group_id": 95, "id": 252239}, {"user_id": 9344, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299096460.710773, "message": "@dideler  haha yeah TI basic was my first language maybe 15 in high school", "group_id": 95, "id": 252407}, {"user_id": 17900, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299096504.6154749, "message": "Foxpro 2.6", "group_id": 95, "id": 252411}, {"user_id": 17908, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299098112.052192, "message": "18, with python", "group_id": 95, "id": 252624}, {"user_id": 9108, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300909950.77001, "user_id": 2343}], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299107197.4266839, "message": "@dideler That irritates me because all of those years have passed... but that calculator is still the same price.", "group_id": 95, "id": 254426}, {"user_id": 18126, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299110588.063113, "message": "Basic on a 48kb spectrum then had a few years hiatus until I went to college", "group_id": 95, "id": 254629}, {"user_id": 17546, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299216913.7435191, "message": "12 or so, in C.", "group_id": 95, "id": 266935}, {"user_id": 6175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299381833.7860479, "message": "Started with Visual C++ when I was 13, but worked with it for just a few days and now I am working with mainly python and PHP with a bit of C. Have also been trying out R in the last couple of days.", "group_id": 95, "id": 278441}, {"user_id": 6478, "stars": [], "topic_id": 7666, "date_created": 1299382078.4904211, "message": "2005 php", "group_id": 95, "id": 278443}]