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Richard Hanson
Lucas said:
Datapoint: 53
I'm fifty-three-years-old. Started programming in 1968 on IBM
mainframes using FORTRAN IV -- and now I'm here, retired, and
hanging out in this Python newsgroup...
but-it-seems-like-*so*-many-more-years'ly y'rs,
Richard
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Duncan Booth
My average age is 21. My actual age is rather more.
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Richard Hanson
Peter said:
(And ditto on the ':-('.)
While I agree with Peter -- and particularly, his ending emoticon
on *all* levels, I have to ask:
-- Was the OP asking about my age in *human* years... -- or
*Richard* years?
(One Richard year approximately equals *two* human years...)
;-)
over-a-century-in-"Richard"-years'ly y'rs,
Richard
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Richard Hanson
Mike said:
Not *that's* a quote!
thread-enjoyingly y'rs,
Richard
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Richard Hanson
Richard said:
Uhh... Meant, of course:
"Now, *that's* a quote!"
proof-reading-after-the-fact'ly y'rs,
Richard
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Rex
Lucas Raab said:
Well, I happen to 17 right now. I've been using Python (my first
(real) language!) for a couple years. I say 'real' because I did some
"programming" of my TI-86 graphing calculator (syntax quite similar to
BASIC) prior to that, but that hardly counts.
Funny story: I taught a 4th grader how to program in Python. He
decided he wanted to learn how to program a computer, so we sat down
over about a week on an elementary school Mac. and I taught him about
variables, strings, input/output, conditionals, and started talking
about while loops.
We had a great "guess the number the computer is thinking of..." game
going by the end. (Too high... Too low... You win!)
So, does he win the award for youngest Python programmer?
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Scott David Daniels
Mark said:
Cool. I often tell people I am one of the oldest programmers
they'll meet who learned young. I'm 53, and my first program
was LGP-30 machine language at 15.
-Scott David Daniels
(e-mail address removed)
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Harry George
Thomas Heller said:
52, and my first logic circuit was an inverter via a homemade relay
run from a 6V battery. (Dad: "Interesting alarm system. Do you know
you have invented a relay?" Me: "What's a relay?")
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Harry George
Eli Stevens (WG.c) said:25 here, Python newbie (less than a year, I think).
I'm sad that nobody else in this thread has spoken in hushed, reverent
tones about my gateway drug, LogoWriter. I was 10 when my fifth grade
math class went to the school computer lab and made the turtle crawl
around the screen. From there, QBasic, C++, C-because-school-made-me,
Java-because-work-made-me, Python-to-save-me.
Handy tip: if you were anything like me, _don't_ go back and try to
read your old code. I had variable names like "qwer" "qwert" and
"qwerty", alongside classics like "a", "b" and "c."
*Shudder*
Eli
A few years ago, I mentored for a math class (3rd-5th grades), and we
did logo robotics. They programmed the little cars to drive a course
drawn on butcher paper. We started with open loop (no feedback), and
did pretty well, then added sensor feedback from strategically placed
lights and did better. Most of the kids were more interested in
building logo monster trucks or coloring on the butcher paper. But 3
of them "got it", and did the programming, and the rest ran after
run-away cars.
I
Irmen de Jong
Alexandre said:
GFA Basic! Hey, that brings back memories.
I actually used it on the Amiga, there was a great port
of it to AmidaDOS at the time.
--Irmen
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Nick Jacobson
Nicolas Évrard said:* Oliver Fromme [13:32 19/08/04 CEST]:I'm 00100001b (or 021h ... or if you prefer decimal, it's
33 years). Although I feel more like 27, which is the age
of my GF.
Well if everybody feels like the age of his GF/BF, I'm 75 although I'm
only 27.
I don't mean to pry, but you're a 27 year-old dating a 75 year-old?
Like a "Harold and Maud" type deal?
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Wilk
Lucas Raab said:
35, i began when i was 11 on Apple ][+ in 6502 assembly langage, then C,
Windev, PHP, Java and now I'm happy to can use only python since somes
years
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Roel Schroeven
Robin said:
Only Event Horizon on TV tonight...
I spotted some errors in your list, added new entries, and made a
histogram: http://roelschroeven.net/pythonages/
number of datapoints: 95
mean: 35.6
standard deviation: 12.7
Gerrit Muller 47
Lucas Raab 14
OKB (not okbackle) 20
Jeremy Jones 31
Ben Last 39
Neuruss 34
Tony Clarke 55
simo 26
Elbert Lev 55
Kamilche 40
Gerardo Herzig 30
JanC 30
Mike Rovner 41
Guyon Morée 21
Tom Brown 35
Will McGugan 30
Christopher T King 19
Skip Montanaro 50
Marcin Jurczuk 26
Reid Nichol 27
Egbert Bouwman 67
VSOFTSMITH 62
Mark Jackson 55
Harry George 52
Stephen Ferg 58
Scott David Daniels 53
Peter Wilkinson 32
oziko 24
Dave Opstad 50
Adonis 23
Jorge Godoy 25
Peter Hickman 43
Axel Steiner 22
Larry Bates 49
Robin Becker 57
Thomas Heller 48
Paul McQuire 45
wes weston 55
(e-mail address removed) 30
Ian Sparks 34
Roel Schroeven 29
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou 32
Gary Herron 52
Ksenia Marasanova 31
Marius Bernklev 24
Robert Boyd 40
Fred Pacquier 44
Jarek Zgoda 33
Leif K-Brooks 13
Peter Maas 48
Tim Jarman 42
Irmen de Jong 30
Ted 46
Roman Suzi 30
Dave Benjamin 25
Christian von Essen 18
Byron 28
R Baumann 55
Batista, Facundo 29
Jeff Shannon 35
Cousin Stanley 58
Berthold Höllmann 38
(e-mail address removed) 50
Ville Vainio 27
Istvan Albert 32
Andrea Griffini 38
Arthur Rambo 43
Beeyah 15
Eli Stevens (WG.c) 25
Bigbowser 15
Hemanth P.S. 32
richard 32
Marcos Eimil Pardo 28
Daniel Harding 25
Rod Haper 57
Bruno Desthuilliers 37
avaeq 19
Scott David Daniels 53
Alexandre Fayolle 30
Andrew Durdin 24
Max M 39
Ganesan R 32
Stefan Schukat 33
Robbie 18
Marc Boeren 34
Gerrit van Dyk 39
Oliver Fromme 33
Nicolas Evrard 27
(e-mail address removed) 25
Alan Kennedy 37
Francis Lavoie 25
Richard Hanson 53
(e-mail address removed) 20
Rex 17
Wilk 35
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Roel Schroeven
Roel said:
Whoops, I had a duplicate entry. Updated:
number of datapoints: 94
mean: 35.4
standard deviation: 12.6
Gerrit Muller 47
Lucas Raab 14
OKB (not okbackle) 20
Jeremy Jones 31
Ben Last 39
Neuruss 34
Tony Clarke 55
simo 26
Elbert Lev 55
Kamilche 40
Gerardo Herzig 30
JanC 30
Mike Rovner 41
Guyon Morée 21
Tom Brown 35
Will McGugan 30
Christopher T King 19
Skip Montanaro 50
Marcin Jurczuk 26
Reid Nichol 27
Egbert Bouwman 67
VSOFTSMITH 62
Mark Jackson 55
Harry George 52
Stephen Ferg 58
Scott David Daniels 53
Peter Wilkinson 32
oziko 24
Dave Opstad 50
Adonis 23
Jorge Godoy 25
Peter Hickman 43
Axel Steiner 22
Larry Bates 49
Robin Becker 57
Thomas Heller 48
Paul McQuire 45
wes weston 55
(e-mail address removed) 30
Ian Sparks 34
Roel Schroeven 29
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou 32
Gary Herron 52
Ksenia Marasanova 31
Marius Bernklev 24
Robert Boyd 40
Fred Pacquier 44
Jarek Zgoda 33
Leif K-Brooks 13
Peter Maas 48
Tim Jarman 42
Irmen de Jong 30
Ted 46
Roman Suzi 30
Dave Benjamin 25
Christian von Essen 18
Byron 28
R Baumann 55
Batista, Facundo 29
Jeff Shannon 35
Cousin Stanley 58
Berthold Höllmann 38
(e-mail address removed) 50
Ville Vainio 27
Istvan Albert 32
Andrea Griffini 38
Arthur Rambo 43
Beeyah 15
Eli Stevens (WG.c) 25
Bigbowser 15
Hemanth P.S. 32
richard 32
Marcos Eimil Pardo 28
Daniel Harding 25
Rod Haper 57
Bruno Desthuilliers 37
avaeq 19
Alexandre Fayolle 30
Andrew Durdin 24
Max M 39
Ganesan R 32
Stefan Schukat 33
Robbie 18
Marc Boeren 34
Gerrit van Dyk 39
Oliver Fromme 33
Nicolas Evrard 27
(e-mail address removed) 25
Alan Kennedy 37
Francis Lavoie 25
Richard Hanson 53
(e-mail address removed) 20
Rex 17
Wilk 35
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Gerrit Muller
Very cool. It might be good idea to add a date and time at the top,
since new datapoint keep coming in?
regards Gerrit
P.S.,
a lot of people added other intersting datapoints: when they started
programming and other languages used. I started around the age of 14,
with HP table top machines (polish notation). Programming languages:
Assemblers, Fortran, *Basic, *Pascal, C, Objective-C, C++. The most
positive experiences were Sinclair QL-basic, Turbo Pascal, Objective-C
and then a quantum leap towards Python.
since new datapoint keep coming in?
regards Gerrit
P.S.,
a lot of people added other intersting datapoints: when they started
programming and other languages used. I started around the age of 14,
with HP table top machines (polish notation). Programming languages:
Assemblers, Fortran, *Basic, *Pascal, C, Objective-C, C++. The most
positive experiences were Sinclair QL-basic, Turbo Pascal, Objective-C
and then a quantum leap towards Python.
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Roel Schroeven
Gerrit said:
Done. Good idea indeed.
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Steve
Since this thread is certain to become something of a c.l.p lore, I'll
do my bit ...
Age: 26
I started out as a systems administrator, which required me to learn
shell scripting, I soon became a scripting nut, parsing conf files,
writing admin tools etc..., it didn't take me too long before I began
aching for a more ^expressive^ language, looked at perl, but that
appeared expressive only in the way slang is expressive for most
teenagers.
A programmer friend suggested python and it was then that I found
the language that I could write script poetry in. Before I realized
it, I was looking for python programmer jobs. Since I had decided to
give up my System Admin. status for that of a programmer, I learned C
and C++ (thanks to my python knowledge, I actually understood what I
was supposed to be doing).
Now I am a happy coder, working for a linux+python shop, doing
almost 90% of my work in python.
I guess the time has come for me to say this:
'A BIG THANK YOU' - to GvR and The Folks, for contributing to my state
of happiness.
Regards
Steve
do my bit ...
Age: 26
I started out as a systems administrator, which required me to learn
shell scripting, I soon became a scripting nut, parsing conf files,
writing admin tools etc..., it didn't take me too long before I began
aching for a more ^expressive^ language, looked at perl, but that
appeared expressive only in the way slang is expressive for most
teenagers.
A programmer friend suggested python and it was then that I found
the language that I could write script poetry in. Before I realized
it, I was looking for python programmer jobs. Since I had decided to
give up my System Admin. status for that of a programmer, I learned C
and C++ (thanks to my python knowledge, I actually understood what I
was supposed to be doing
).Now I am a happy coder, working for a linux+python shop, doing
almost 90% of my work in python.
I guess the time has come for me to say this:
'A BIG THANK YOU' - to GvR and The Folks, for contributing to my state
of happiness.
Regards
Steve
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Swaroop C H
Lucas Raab said:
Going to be 22 next month...
Btw, I've even written a book on it
See www.python.g2swaroop.net
Enjoy,
Swaroop
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Eric S. Johansson
when I first saw the title, I thought it was along the same theme as the
"age of dinosaurs" or some such thing. but my answer is just 48, two
years, more languages and I care to think about including mess of
assembly languages, tpl (a weird form of ratfor), and pl/1 subset g.
Python made it possible for me to write code again. After 18 years of
programming, RSI went critical and I stopped programming pretty much for
about 10 years. Python syntax is simple enough that I can, with proper
variable naming patterns, write code. The 5000+ lines of code and
comment in the camram project are proof of that.
I do wish there was better handicap accessibility for programming as
there are a bunch of us damaged programmers about to undertake a rather
significant project, namely making speech recognition work on Linux.
The details a boring if you're not interested so I will spare you but
this project is essential for those of us wishing for a choice in our
development environments.
---eric
"age of dinosaurs" or some such thing. but my answer is just 48, two
years, more languages and I care to think about including mess of
assembly languages, tpl (a weird form of ratfor), and pl/1 subset g.
Python made it possible for me to write code again. After 18 years of
programming, RSI went critical and I stopped programming pretty much for
about 10 years. Python syntax is simple enough that I can, with proper
variable naming patterns, write code. The 5000+ lines of code and
comment in the camram project are proof of that.
I do wish there was better handicap accessibility for programming as
there are a bunch of us damaged programmers about to undertake a rather
significant project, namely making speech recognition work on Linux.
The details a boring if you're not interested so I will spare you but
this project is essential for those of us wishing for a choice in our
development environments.
---eric