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John H
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2004 03:28
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During study hall today I was in the comp room working on my RPG Tutorial (Im doing it for school as well)

All the sudden this GENIOUS 4th grader comes up and observes me programming. I just ignore him. All the sudden he starts saying how amazing the battle system I had going was. I was like "Heh, thanks" He spoke about Dark Basic like he knew it,,,kinda freaked me out! Looks like there are even younger DBers out there then we knew about

The computer teacher told me he was a programmer as well, I thought to myself WTF?! But hey, kids these days are getting used to computers earlier and earlier I guess.

4th grade programmer, cool eh?

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Mattman
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2004 03:29
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hehe, i started in third with HTML

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CattleRustler
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mattman, although impressive for a third grader, html is not "programming", in the purest sense of the word.

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Ian T
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In the purest sense of the word, it is a script, thus a language, and thus those who use it are programmers and the use of it is programming...

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Mattman
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2004 03:55
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well, it's quite complex for a 8 year old CattleRustler...

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Yeah. I started DBC in 5th grade and I started making sites when I was 7 or 8. I made a my first game in 4th grade with RPGTK1. It was one world, 10 monsters, 2 playable charcters (which is horrible for a RPGTK game) but I liked it.
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TKF15H
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Am I the only one that started off with QuickBasic? I was around 8 or something...

Why do programmers always mix up Christmas and Halloween?
Because DEC 25 = OCT 31
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Mattman
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2004 04:03
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i never used QB...

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HZence
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Used QB once or twice, but personally I started with LTPB in 6th grade.

And RPGamer, in a couple of years, 4th grades knowing how to program will be even more commonplace. Now THAT is scary.


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I was in 3Rd grade. We learned Assembly. It was the hardest thing ever. I remember we got down to 16-Bit registires.

True story.

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Is QuickBASIC Qbasic as in in DOS you yupe in qbasic? Becaues I started with that (sort of). I made a couple quizzes for my class in 5th grade with it but never was too good at it.
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Jimmy
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i started with QBasic when I was 10.. or 11, on my Tandy 1000!! BABY YEAH

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Kharnor
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Heh. I started qbasic when i was like 6 years old. All i could make was ' print "hello world" ' programs. Eventually i learned the 'input' and 'cls' commands and made huge text adventures with ascii graphics! I even made a text version of frogger once.

I remember in year 5 and 6, we had a bunch of computers outside our classroom with qbasic on them. I showed everyone and soon they were all playing Nibbles and Gorrilas. I was making my own program, something like

And then someone comes up to me and says "No, you cant do that, the printer's not working."

Current project: Parking Lot (puzzle game, 30% complete)
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Dave J
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2004 09:10
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When I was 12 I didn't even know what a floppy drive was. o_O


"Computers are useless they can only give you answers."
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Pincho Paxton
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I started programming with Speccy Basic! Each command was assigned to a single key press!

Load = L
Print = P
For = F
Next = N

Something like that. It was easy to remember though, because the words were printed on the keys.

Pincho.

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Dave J
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2004 11:15
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Cool.


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Andy Igoe
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Load was J Pincho

I started on the ZX81. I had just gotten out of nappies. The earliest record I can find of my programming was a Spectrum game I wrote and it had a date in the code, I was 8. I wrote it about 4-5 years after my first program.

I learned to program alongside learning to talk. My parents where convinced computers would be a big industry and wanted me to be ready.


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Benjamin
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My bro doesnt do any sort of programming now, but when he was younger he did some on the ZX spectrum. The first programming I ever did was on my old PC in 'liberty BASIC' when I was about 11. It was on a cd to a magazine i got, so I decided to try it out.

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indi
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i started at 10 on a texas instruments but i kinda went more art and media than coding.
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zircher
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I'm a late bloomer and didn't start coding until 1981 on a Tandy Color Computer (CoCo for short.) That machine still has the nicest keyboard I ever used. At the time, you could buy an IBM Selectric keyboard and replaced the standard 'chiclet' keyboard.
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Ian T
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I started getting into programming when I was 11... on an AMD 700mhz machine I'm gonna have to wait a decade or so to be considered an oldbie . Haven't advanced past DarkBASIC actually, though I can now read C++ to an extent if not write it, and know a darn lot more about PC hardware.

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nrasool
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Ahh... my dad purchased me an Amstrad CPC 464 in 1986, i was 9 years old at that time. Played Roland on the ropes and Alien (Amsoft) version. Loved it so much, that i was purchasing Amstrad Action and going through their code listing and changing it around in basic

Good old days

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CattleRustler
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started with Atari Basic (Atari 400) when I was about 9 or 10. I still have that computer and it still works, although I haven't fired it up in ages

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Renegade
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2004 19:42
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Quote: "When I was 12 I didn't even know what a floppy drive was. o_O
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Same here
I started to use HTML when I was 16 years old
and now Im learning PHP and DBC (at least I try to learn )
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Damokles
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I was 8 years old, when I started to code simple things on my C64
Things like :
Quote: "1 PRINT "Want to see my poetry ?"
2 INPUT$ = type$
3 IF type$ = "yes" THEN GOTO 5
4 END
5 PRINT "Once upon a time, ..."
6 PRINT "blablabla"
...
54 PRINT "And he died in peace."
55 END"


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Pincho Paxton
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Lol! What was your gay rating again???...Poetry...lol! J/K!

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Jeku
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My dad showed me a thing or two about programming in BASIC on the Commodore 64 when I was 6 or 7, so that was when I started. I eventually moved onto GW-BASIC on our Atari 1040ST, and was making screensavers and flashy crap.

Then when I hit Grade 6, I got my first IBM Clone (486/33), and was tinkering with QB4.5, making BBS games (some of you guys should remember playing those). Then I moved up to C/C++ in high school, and have been engrossed in DBP and Visual C++ since, making games and apps and all kinds of stuff. I want my future kids to start coding young too, it helps the logical brain come out

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sorry but you american year grouping is confusing me. here in the uk u are at primary school from 4/5-->>10/11 then you go into secondary school. i am in 4th year secondary and just started darkbasic properly 3or4 months ago. when i was 8/9ish i tried darkbasic or whenever it came out, it was brand new then i think but i'm not sure, i didn't really understand it, all i could do was simple input then print out the input sort of thing altho i could edit the examples to make the tank go faster, fire two bullets that have different speeds/angles etc. last year we started programming in 3rd year in pascal so after i was comferable with that i remembered about db so i found the trial again and liked it much more so i bought it a few weeks ago. i did some html and am now trying to learn php. i'm also thinking about getting the old zx81 or bbc out of the attic to try them. i could use dos when i was 2 years old though.

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Quote: "Atari Basic (Atari 400) when I was about 9 or 10. I still have that computer and it still works, although I haven't fired "

You have an Atari 400, me too! I love that thing. It really sucks in these days though. When I moved it broke and never got to fixing it yet.
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