age of Python programmers

[Harry George]

55. Wrote my first program at 16 (Fortran, punch cards).

--
Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it
is the merger of state and corporate power.
- Benito Mussolini

Finally, someone in my cohort . 52. Also wrote first program at
16, FORTRAN, on punch cards. Many, many languages later found python
and bliss. In the middle of a world of meetings, project planning,
and other project managering a few hours coding restores a sense of
hope.

(BTW, nice signature quote. See http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/ for
related materials.)

 

[Fred Pacquier]

It's raining so I can't go home

One more datapoint (it's raining here too) : 44 (next week

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
about....

I'm 13, I'll be 14 in 89 days. I started doing somewhat real programming
at around 11; I had done silly things in a VB-like language for Mac OS
before then, mostly "viruses" that displayed a full-screen window with
no close button, but hadn't written any code.

 

[Aahz]

[...]

Not too many late-30s, I guess. I've been programming Python for six
years, started at nine years old with BASIC.
--
Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a
koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You
discover truth everytime you use it." (e-mail address removed)

 

[Egbert Bouwman]

67. My impression is that it easier to learn python when you are younger.
egbert

 

[Peter Maas]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
Python programmer??

48.16

 

[Tim Jarman]

42 (well, you knew that would be answer, didn't you?

Tim J

 

[Irmen de Jong]

I'm 30-years-and-1-month.

--Irmen

 

[Ted]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
about....

46... 1 year Python... 26 years pretty much everything else. I'd like
to retire with Python, it's that good.

 

[Roman Suzi]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
about....

I am still younger than average Python programmer:

30


Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi

 

[Dave Benjamin]

My average age has been increasing steadily for years. :-(

LOL =)

 

[Jarek Zgoda]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
about....

Now it's 33 and still ticks.

 

[Dave Benjamin]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
about....

I'm 25. Been using Python for about 3 years. I started programming in BASIC
on a Commodore 64 when I was about 8 years old.

 

[Christian von Essen]

I'm 18 years old

 

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Most Python programmers I know are 40+. I am myself 47 (born in december
1956).

regards Gerrit

P.S.,

how many teeners are still programming? Most teeners I know build
websites, but they don't program.

I certainly wouldn't call these shockingly horrible bunches of IE-tags
thrown together with the intention of being regarded as "cool" a "website".

Reinhold, rant rant

 

[Byron]

28 years old. I have been using Python for one year. Mostly work with
VB6, but now have a new favorite.

Byron

 

[R Baumann]

One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age of a
Python programmer?? What age groups use Python?? Something to think
about....

I celebrate the 17th anniversary of my 39th birthday in September. ;-)

Started programming in the US Air Force when I was 27. Assembler on a
Univac 1050-II.

Ruben

 

[Jeff Shannon]

I'm 35, and have been programming off and on (more off than on) since I
was about 11.

First program was in Basic on a TRS-80, quickly moved on to Apple //e;
didn't program at all in high school, took a "programming for engineers"
course in college (Basic & Fortran), then after college decided to teach
myself C. Another break of some years before I bought myself a (used)
386 PC, and resumed dabbling in C, then C++. At this point (about 8
years ago) I became hooked, and started devouring all the programming
and software engineering/design books I could get from the library.
Once my job started including coding (mostly [Pick] Basic & UHL, a
proprietary [and horribly ugly & evil] scripting language), I decided to
pick up Python (based largely on a Dr. Dobbs Journal Programmer of the
Year award to Gvr, and the article about him and Python they published
then) and never want to look back.

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International

 

[Cousin Stanley]

| One thing I've always kind of wondered is what is the average age
| of a Python programmer ??
|
| What age groups use Python ??
|
| Something to think about....

import time

tup_lt = time.localtime()

now_yr = tup_lt[ 0 ]
now_mo = tup_lt[ 1 ]
now_da = tup_lt[ 2 ]

dob_yr = 1946
dob_mo = 8
dob_da = 9

dy = now_yr - dob_yr
dm = now_mo - dob_mo
dd = now_da - dob_da

print '\n %d Years .... %d Months .... %d Days .... Old \n' % ( dy , dm , dd )

58 Years .... 0 Months .... 9 Days .... Old

 

[Christopher T King]

quickly moved on to Apple //e;

<3 the Apple //e. My dad taught me how to program in BASIC on it when I
was 6. The Beagle Bros. were like gods to me (anyone else remember
them?). Would that Python could run on a //e