whats the average age of programmers on here

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Coskun said:
I'm sure, you have 10 years of programming experience also.
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I did some contract work at giantcampus.com

They used to run summer VC++ classes for 4th graders!
 
Elidel said:
I did some contract work at giantcampus.com

They used to run summer VC++ classes for 4th graders!
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It sounds great.

PS: I was just having some fun. I'm 20 years old and have 6 years of
programming and 3.5 years of DotNet experience.
 
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It all about stopping along the path.

How did you get from there to here, where are you going, and can you stop to
chat?

Perspective comes from stationary reflection, and
just because what your doing takes 20 years to complete, doesn't mean that it
doesn't take 20 years to complete.

Sincerely,
Fasatr©
15 years and counting.
 
Guys, its exciting to see such a large age range in terms of
programmers....the very young to the very old, or should I say,

experienced. Being 39, Im in that "sweet spot" I guess and can look in both
directions.

What I will say is it is comforting to know that young or old, programming
is still programming and can be mastered as well as

enjoyed by minds of all ages. My Grandfather is sending me jokes by email at
90 years old, so its never too late! I started at 14

years old in the 70's to learn BASIC on an Apple II but like the languages
today allot more. So, who knows what age is the best to

enjoy programming. Much rather know c#.NET or XHTML markup at 40 than BASIC
at 14.

But the old saying "I wish I knew then what I know now" will be the same for
us as it will be for the younger generation and those after

them. If you are 17 now, you will be 70 someday, and we all have to travel
down the path of quick minds versus years of experience.

Its the same game in any career field. The main lesson from all this is not
whether .NET or any age makes a better programmer, but

did you enjoy the journey? If you love programming, and its your passion, at
any age you will find a way to do it, do it well, and make

good money at it. And its the talent pool people are looking for
anyway....anyone can be a programmer.

I just hope they dont ever invent software that writes everything for you
because that will kill our Golden Goose!

tex :o)
 
talltexan said:
If you are 17 now, you will be 70 someday, and we all have to travel
down the path of quick minds versus years of experience.
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I wrote my first program in 1965 in a course using 'A Guide to FORTRAN IV
Programming' by McCracken which had just been published. Most of the
homework assignments involved chessboard manipulaitons; a working first
class chess program was soon to follow, if anyone had a free weekend.
Natural language translation would take a little longer, maybe a month or
two for the first cut.

Babelfish is still a source of amusement to me. Quick minds know they can do
anything; experience suggests it's going to take decades to do it...
 
Did you know that among Neanderthals, the average life expectancy was 20
years old ?

https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/citd/Osteology/Hoppa.html

"The overall impression that palaeodemography has provided us over the years
is that life expectancy in the past was relatively low, with individuals
living perhaps on average to their mid to late 20s with old age falling
into the 40s. "

In some sense, in a natural setting, *prime* for a human is 10 years old.
 
Chronologically, will be 53 in a few days.
Emotionally, about 19 (according to my kids. Just because I'm addicted to
WoW)
Gender: female (I know, you didn't ask. Just letting some of you punks
know that there are a few women who got into computers before you were born)
 
mnature said:
Chronologically, will be 53 in a few days.
Emotionally, about 19 (according to my kids. Just because I'm addicted to
WoW)
Gender: female (I know, you didn't ask. Just letting some of you punks
know that there are a few women who got into computers before you were born)
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Hey, do you remember Dr Grace Hopper??? She was a name before either of
us....

JD
 
Cor...... my answer ia as old ascomputer and your answer is as good as a
yankee. I think you couldnt guess .... i replied ineference to several perv
posts and replies insame chain/node. This MS's tree based posts windows is
not as graphically understandable as it should/could be. Guide Lines are
missing to link and relate messages etc etc. so inorder to kep my message in
stream/chain i replied. the better supposed way to reply was, i should press
reply selectig ur message first but this will create a break in chain and
become hard to visualise that ur mesage has been replied.

so my reply was in prospect of several prev mssages in same stream.
 
i feel so young amongst the older ones. oh and by the way im 18. i've been
programming for about 5 years now. yay me. not many others at my school seem
to be interested in programming. they are more into game programming which is
what i do. but then i tell them the dedication one needs to do this and then
they all changed their mind. LOL. well i hope to become experienced like
everyone else is. wish me luck!
 
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