When i was about 10 years old, My dad attempting to teach me BASIC and giving me the whole 'This was state of its art programming back in the day" lecture.
I am pretty sure it was around 1999, I was 13.. in between drinking and wasting time with other things I got distracted and came away from it, only wish I had of stuck it out!
I started coding two years ago. I started coding because i was sick of paying programmers really high rates for poor quality of work. Over the years i have learned; PHP, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and AJAX. All in all it was a huge advantage learning back then because now the programming name is so demanding. Thanks, Michael
Oh yes, I'm old enough for punch cards. In 1970, my high school partnered with the state university and offered a computer programming class. We created simple Fortran programs and keypunched our code. A student would drop the cards off at night and return the next morning with printouts. The next year, the state offered a time share system that relied on a teletype with a modem. It used a paper tape to "record" programs in Basic. You'd log in and feed the paper tape in to enter your program into the system. When I attended the university, they had CRT terminals that we mostly used to play Star Trek and Adventure and thought it was amazing.
When I was 11. 1998. QBASIC. Still have some of the games that I made somewhere... Wanted to learn how to write "programs" and tried opening .exe files in notepad which didn't get me very far, so typed "how to make computer programs" into google or whatever search engine.. maybe yahoo. Went from there. Wrote a program (QBASIC) and sent it to a magazine called "PC Authority" (australian pc mag, not sure if they still make it), because their software that loads the software on their demo discs never worked for me. So they mailed me a boxed copy of Visual Studio 6.0 in return. Gradually moved on from there. Thanks "PC Authority".