Youngest Code Guru

Now don't laugh but I started on a mainframe. I learned Fortran and Cobol using punch cards (monitors not in yet). Had to submit cards (hoping you didn't drop them) and wait for printout. If a problem then back to keypunch. I got a TRS-80 in 68 (i think) and started using basic. Thru the years I have learned some C but prefer VB. Went thru several different basics. I want to learn VB script, java, asp, etc. Now that I am retired I have the time to do that.

P.S. Yes I did program using asm. You had to write your fast code in asm compile it and then poke it into memory from your basic program.

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Originally posted by dimm_coder
Ok. Today I am 20. Soon , from two weeks ++, I ' ll 21.

Another question.

From which age U had been working?
That's mean age from U had been programming for real programs, not for hobby only.

I am from 19.

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I started at 25 :)

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Originally posted by dimm_coder
Ok. Today I am 20. Soon , from two weeks ++, I ' ll 21.

Another question.

From which age U had been working?
That's mean age from U had been programming for real programs, not for hobby only.

I am from 19.

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I got 21 two weeks ago... Started programming with 15 and worked with it with 20. :)

I'm the youngest! Just turned 12 Oct 6.:D

Only kidding. I just turned 24.

No, goodz13!!! :D

I am the younger.
My Birthday October, 28. And Bill Gates has Birthday in that day too. :D ;) :p

So Bill - 1955/October/28
I am - 1981/October/28

long K = 13 // heh...
long N = (1981 - 1955) / K;

printf( "Dimm_coder is "Bill Gates" number = %d", N );

So as result - I am next! hahahahahahahaha..... :D :p :D

I could name a few people on this board that ACT the youngest......


There are days when my wife tells me I'm acting like a 5 year old too..... Would that make me the youngest?


Waynes - I've used punch cards too. I bet most of the people here haven't seen a punch card or a punch card reader......
I guess admitting this, moves me out of the running for being youngest......

Brad!

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Originally posted by Brad Jones
Waynes - I've used punch cards too. I bet most of the people here haven't seen a punch card or a punch card reader......
I guess admitting this, moves me out of the running for being youngest......

Brad!

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I used to use punch cards at a parttime job at Halifax Metro Center. It's where all the Big events go in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada! (sport events,concerts,etc). That was only about 5 years ago. After that I used them at an oil refinery.

Main thing is to be ( and to stay ) young at heart ;)

How about, let's count our Guru age from the time we first taste of programming or the like stuffs.

Ok, let me introduce myself, I'm now about 10 yrs. old. I was born during the "5.25-inch-floppy-diskette" era, just after the "Punch-Card" era. I belong to the DOS family that used to live inside the dark "Window-less" x286 machine. During my infant age, I couldn't speak of anything but syntaxes of DOS batch file. But after a year, I learned my first formal language, (Turbo) Pascal. Then, C/C++, Prolog, Lisp, Ada, etc. came to follow.

Now it's your turn. :D

1st Computer - Timex Sinclair where I played with Basic language.
Then IBM-PC Clone, with 640k memory, floppies, green monitor. I guess that would make me about 20 or so years old! Mind you I paid more for my IBM-PC clone then I do now for Pentium 4's.

I kind of envy you people that had a computer when you were about 10 years old. I didn't get one until I was almost 30. So tell me, are you all the typical movie geeks. Not going out to play, no high scool sports, fishing, etc.? I know that when I got mine I stayed in front of it so much the wife complained all the time. I am better now, thank you. Let's here from you.

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Originally posted by WayneS
So tell me, are you all the typical movie geeks. Not going out to play, no high scool sports, fishing, etc.? I know that when I got mine I stayed in front of it so much the wife complained all the time. I am better now, thank you. Let's here from you.

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I am not better now...but I do not have a wife that could complain... :cool:

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Originally posted by Brad Jones
There are days when my wife tells me I'm acting like a 5 year old too..... Would that make me the youngest?

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:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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Originally posted by Brad Jones
I could name a few people on this board that ACT the youngest......

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Ooom... oomm...

I can read your mind here :p

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I learned Fortran and Cobol using punch cards (monitors not in yet).

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:eek:

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I got a TRS-80 in 68

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1968 most people on CG were not born yet :cool: See... true

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I am - 1981/October/28

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