Ask HN: What age you started to program?

I think my very first forays into programming were around 7th or 8th grade, so about 10 or 11 years old. But it didn't really "hook" me then, maybe in part because I didn't have a proper computer... just a "Bally Arcade" game console with a BASIC cartridge you could plug in. But without a keyboard, entering code was really tedious and painful.

When I really think of myself as "getting into programming big time" was my first year of college. I would have been 18 then. I took a couple of programming classes as electives, and "the bug bit" as they say, and I bought the parts to build a PC (386DX40 FTW!) and downloaded a shareware C compiler from a BBS, bought Herbert Schildt's book Teach Yourself C and just dove in... never looked back. :-)

I took "intro to C++" as a freshman at my university. So 18 year's old. I started working with PHP at by buddy's start up shortly thereafter. I took a couple more classes. I minored in CS. I coded for fun and some small client projects while I worked in other industries for a decade. I then became a real, professional developer at around age 28.

9 with BASIC. Then x86 Assembly and C around 14. Pascal and VB around 15 (mainly for disassembly and virus learning). Delphi (Pascal) around 16.

I'm 32.

maybe around 10. I was sent to a programming club learning logo, then another club to learn qbasic. I hated programming very much.

A few years later, I got interested in game and graphics programming, I started to like it since then.

When I was around 8 my parents had ne take a class in logo.

Basic on the commodore 64 at 10 years old.