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I've learnt HTML, CSS and a bit of PHP since I was 13, I'm now 15 and I just saw this site advertised on Inside xbox so i'm going to give it a go.
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I was 12 when I began programming, and I'm now 20.
I started in junior high school with C, using an online DJGPP compiler (from their website; and the compiler is still up, it seems :P), learning from howstuffworks.com xD; I then went on to use RAD tools such as Game Maker and RPG Maker while I continued to learn more about C++, so that I could finally start programming *games* with it.
Went on to use a free library for C++ called Irrlicht, at which point I dumped the RAD tools and started playing around with that. I never really touched C# until VS2005 Express, at which point I started doing some Windows development with it, and then XNA came out. With XNA, I advanced my knowledge a hell of a lot faster.
Now, I don't really use XNA all that much, though I'm picking it back up to begin learning 3D development. I'll be spending the next 6-9 months in Afghanistan, so hopefully, I'll have something to show for learning when I get back. Mostly, my 2D development is done with C++ and Direct3D 9. Though, I'm looking into Direct2D and DirectWrite technologies, as they look pretty damn interesting.
:: Life is a journey, litter your path with the bodies of your enemies. ::
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I began programming when I was 13, however I really didn't get started with anything until I was ~15. I am now 17.
I started off with c# and windows forms, but after making only one little application, I took around a year's hiatus. When XNA came out, I experimented with that for a few months and began to learn programming more in-depth. I really didn't understand most of what I was doing at first. I took another break to read through a c# programming book, which taught me lots of important basic things in programming. It was also the first time that I was exposed to switchs and for loops. I took another break from XNA and C# while in my programming class in High School. My first year of programming was entirely QBASIC. In that class, I learned about arrays and a few other key concepts in all programming languages. After that class was over, I believe the first instances of zune game development came about. This is when I really started getting into programming again. I began working on a game with someone else that was more or less just an improved version of an already existing game. At this point, I still was a novice in very many areas of programming. After a month or so, I decided to create my own zune game, which turned out pretty well, I thought, for my first solo project. I've been working on other small things since then, but I've learned so much about programming in the ~year since I started with zune programming. I've started working on XBox games. This year, I'm taking a JAVA development class based around applications and applets. I hope to learn even more about what I know and new methods of programming. I am now finally starting to program in what I would consider higher level methods.
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I think I was 20 when I did my first programming (with Java), and I'm 23 now. I've mainly worked with assembly languages though and have had fairly minimal experience with higher level languages. Hopefully, that changes as one of my friends wants me to help him with one of his projects here.
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I was 9 when I began programming. I started program with C# and I made simple games. Now I am 11 and I make more complex games with C# and I own 2 websites.
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ok, i no this was a forum before but i want to restart it.
I started programing when I was 8 and I programed 2D game with c#. I am 11 and I now program with visual basic and C# and I program 3D first person shooters. I also own two websites which I will post the links here.
funbob10.webs.com
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lordbadman5.webs.com
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I started in BASIC on the Amstrad when I was about 11, around 13-14 I started using AMOS on the Amiga, at 16 I was programming in Pascal on the PC, 18 I started in C then C++ a year later. At 22 I started working professionally in the games industry. I'm 28 now and I started using C# about 2 years ago for personal projects whist still using C++ at work.
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 funbob10:ok, i no this was a forum before but i want to restart it.
But this one http://forums.xna.com/forums/t/10306.aspx?PageIndex=15 seems to be just fine. Why restart?
..shaders make you feel... powerful, or very very stupid. http://drjbn.spaces.live.com/
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Byron Nelson: But this one http://forums.xna.com/forums/t/10306.aspx?PageIndex=15 seems to be just fine. Why restart?
I merged them now. Thanks, Byron.
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I started programming in college in 1976 when I was 20.
Before that I had only used a slide ruler. In college the first course was an introduction to programming and it had Pascal as model language.
The programs we wrote were typed on an IBM keypunch stancing machine. The stack of keypunch cards was then read in a special reading machine and the program was executed on a Univac 1108 computer in another city. After a long wait a huge printer went live and printed the result. (The term "patching" by the way originates from this time. Patching meant you used a needle to make a new hole in a keypunch card to change a program.)
I'm now 55 and I'm using C++ and Java.
In my education we got exposed to many different languages like Pascal, Lisp, APL, Simula, Forth and C. The idea was that you should get to know many different programming idioms. We learnt a lot of basic math a physics and there were also many "advanced algorithms & data" style courses in my program.
What I learned back then still holds up very well today. What has changed in the 35 years since then is windows based GUI's and object orientation patterns. Apart from that everything is pretty much the same. A binary search still is a binary search -:)
In my experience, and this is also backed up by lots of statistics, the best thing you can do is getting a college eduction. For me it gave me 5 fun years. I made friends. I developed socially as a person. I got to do what I liked. I got confident about my abilities. I learned things that makes me special even today. I heavily draw on what I learnt in my now ancient education in everyday life each day today. God bless the Linköping Institute of Technology and the Computer Science & Technology program.
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Uj10, I'm just curious, what type of project are you working on in XNA?
Best,
Byron
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27 Now, started programming at 14 with OPL :D that was brutal to type on that thing
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I'm in visualisation really but that's a lot like gaming. I'm showing molecules as they move around and you got to interact with them like in a game but it's how they move for real in physics.
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26 now. Started in high school playing with C/C++ making text-based games, then I did a bunch of 3d art (modeling/texturing/etc) in college (VCU). Got more serious about programming a little over 2 years ago with Flash, then played with stuff like Allegro, etc. I'm a developer/designer (mainly Flash AS2/AS3) from 9 to 6 (work), then the whole XNA C# on the side (late hours). I can't put the pencils and books down now. :D
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25, I started messing around when I was 14 with q-basic, I seem to remember programming a quasi American flag and thinking it was badass, those were the days lol. I left programming to study graphic design, but have now came back to it. I have dabbled in C++/C# mostly. I would still consider myself a newb.
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14 / 40. Commodore 64 Basic -> Turbo Pascal / C / Assembler (AKA the college years) -> DBL ( a DIBOL offshoot ) -> Delphi -> C#
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i apparently started a lot later than other people here, maybe because i'm a liberal arts person. i started programming turbo pascal as a junior in college (19). i'm 37 now. This month i programmed in java, CLIPS, C# and C++. Previous months had TorqueScript, GML, x86 assembler, batch, csh, sed, awk, perl, php, COBOL, Delphi, lisp, scheme, ml, haskel, oberon, axiom, visual basic, VBA, HTML, javascript, rosescript, prolog, ops5, soar, smalltalk, C, JCL, DCL, paradox, foxpro, hypercard, powerscript, TOOL, silver, basic, lua, unrealscript and a bunch of others but, oddly, not some of the more popular languages such as fortran, ada, ruby or python. Most days, though, it's C++, TorqueScript, java and C#
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18 now, began programming (C#) since last September so i'm still fairly new to it. I also learned some assembly language (a pain to learn). Well programming was new to me before I started a Computer Games Dev course, I didn't have a clue back then of what I was actually going to be learning but i'm glad I chose this course.
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I'm ancient and I started programming when I was 19.
At that time, though there were a few microcomputers around, college students couldn't really afford one. So the school had a minicomputer time-sharing sytem. Thought I was familiar with digital logic, I had never really used a computer. One night, a friend of mine and I were going to go bowling, but all the lanes were filled at the college bowling alley. So he said "I have an account on the school's time-sharing system, let's go play with the computer." So we did, I was hooked, I got a copy of the minicomputer programming manuals, and I've been programming ever since.*
-Neil
*I still remember my first program, it was an interactive binary/decimal converter.
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I'm almost 15, and i started when i just turned 14, i started with Actionscript 2.0 becuase that was the program my school had and i could learn a little bit in ICT lessons, too bad we didn't actually have much on how to use Flash, although i learnt it and Actionscript easier than anyone else, and i'm hopefully going to get good at C++ and C#, if i can get this damned .NET framework to install...
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I was 11 when I started programming and am 13 now. I mainly used Java when I was 11 and now use C# and a bit of C++.
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I was 7 when i started programming, i started with basic and the first game i ever built was a dice game which just rolled dice (you didnt see them roll) and you would get a random number from 1 to 6. that was in 2001 now im 15 and doing this with epix proportions. my dad is a software engineer that works with java so he introduced me. i have done php, html, python, EventScripts, c++ java and c#. im still on c# and eventscripts but for the rest i just moved on. i have never been a good speller so excuse any mistakes on this reply.
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I'm 27 and i started programming when I was 14 in Qbasic, after that I did some C++.
When I was 16 I started with web based scripting and programming
(Javascript,PHP, ASP, VBscript), and from my twentieth, I specialized
more into VB.NET and C#.
Also I did a lot in the complete range of all Actionscript languages (1.0/2.0 and 3.0).
but now I am running my own IT Company, and I am still learning ^_^
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I started programming silly little things in BASIC at the age of 10/11 on my Commodore 64.
I didn't really get into it properly until I started modding Quake when I was 13/14. Since then I've programmed primarily in C/C++ and Java (and all the boring web-based languages like Perl and PHP).
Now I'm 26 and have been programming various applications with C# for about a year since I found out about XNA!
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