whats the average age of programmers on here

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I'm getting close to the end of an age of 50 years,

As for SuperFan, it figures that a Java programmer would take a series of
numbers, the majority of which are below 50, some quite significantly so, and
come up with "like 50" as an average! Of course, if you define the "like"
method correctly,....
 
15, I'm a freshman in highschool.
I've been programming VB since I was about 13-14, and scripting since I was
12 (I taught myself - I don't have a life)
 
I fail to see how this comment is appropriate. Sad to see your age doesn't
match your maturity.

I'm 28.
 
I'm 48. I'm probably the youngest person here who has actually used
unit record equipment (IBM 407 Accounting Machine) for real work. (My
employer was rather cheap, and use of this old machine was free.)

But my first electronic computer was a GE 635.
 
I'm 14 now. I started doing C++ when I was 13 but stopped cause the tutorial
i had didn't mention anything which could affect compilers regarding grammar.
Then i started it again.
Also do some PHP, good in html and also did a bit of vbscript. Will do
visual basic and maybe delphi soon.
 
29(hex)

Started on trs80, then big time punch card ibm 360, move up to a smoken
univac 1108...and on... First real life program, search program using a 16X16
search matrix all in 20K of memory!!! (written in assembly of course)

Now I just fix, other peoples messes...mostly..:(
 
18yo.....

Sean Hederman said:
The question would then be why do you think they use .NET instead of Java? I
mean, is there something about .NET that you think attracts older
developers? Or perhaps something about Java that repels them? Or perhaps
what you're just seeing is a standard developer age cross-section? Have you
attempted this poll on the Java newsgroups and compared the results? In
addition I'm interested in the huge leap you make when you say that ".NET is
just a way for old COM C++ programmers to do Java". Given even a full
sampling of ages from both the Java communities and .NET communities that
backed up your (incorrect) calculation in the first line, how do these
results translate to determining the reasons for your assumed age gap?

*sniff sniff*, definate troll smell in the air.

I'm 30 BTW.
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basecamp said:
just checking the average age of programmers using this group
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I'm 57...began programming as a profession in 1980, beta-ed VB 1 when it was
Project Thunder and Visual C, before it became Visual C 1. I fell in love
with .NET (VB & C#) as soon as MS released the product. Having 'grown' with
MS languages, I really appreciate where MS has taken them.
 
I am 59 and I thought I was getting past it already. Looking at your
replies, I need to pull my finger out and get my brain unscrambled !
 
CubiX said:
Bunch od dads :) I'm 19.
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I'm 30 (31 in two weeks).

Okay, so has anyone been paying enough attention to this thread to
answer the question posed in the subject? What's the average? :)

-Zak
 
Zak,
Okay, so has anyone been paying enough attention to this thread to answer
the question posed in the subject? What's the average? :)
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Nobody prohibits you doing that.

:-)

Cor
 
70 - First punched card 1952, Started building computers 1960, Started
Programming in the 70's (Univac 418 - assembler)
 
Hi, I am 53. I started in college with fortran on an Xerox sigma 7. Punch
cards, etc. I have worked mostly with Cobol and discovered .NET 2 years ago.

I have noticed that responses from the 'Over The Hill" gang are much more
thoughtful and reasoned. Most of the younger have 'no reason' for using
..net. It is just one more thing to try.

I have been a little panicked of late because of my 'advanced' age. However
reading these posting is great therapy for the age challenged like me! I
know I can learn anything new (maybe not as fast and not because of age, but
2 kids under 6 and 1 more on the way).

I believe the experience of the older programmer far exceeds the advantages
of a young programmer ( the primary advantage is you can work them to death
24 hours a day!)

Oh well enough rambling. Thanks for the posts.

:

Bob P.
 
Robert said:
I believe the experience of the older programmer far exceeds the advantages
of a young programmer ( the primary advantage is you can work them to death
24 hours a day!)
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At 46, I think the experience gains are still outweighing the loss of
sheer brainpower. It's quite clear to me that I thought much faster
and was more creative at 26 than at 46 - but I'm more productive at
46, partly because the tools have gotten better but mostly (I think)
because I've learned good habits and don't try to impress myself with
clever code. I'm sure it doesn't hurt that I've implemented so many
different patterns that many tasks are 'just like that one except for
.....'
 
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