At what age did you write your first, interactive program?
By interactive program, I mean a program that takes an input and returns an output based on that input. Hello World is not an interactive program. A program to check if a number is prime, return the nth Fibonacci number, or even to take your input and throw it back at you is an interactive program.
By write, I mean from your own brain. Being told how to do it by a tutorial, ie copying it down, does not count.
JS, PHP, Perl, Python, Java, the Cs, TI calculator programs, etc. If it runs on a computer, takes input, and spits output based on that, then it counts as a program.
If you are unsure of your exact age, guesstimate.
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I know I had several programs on my Calculator as a Freshman in Highschool. Quadratic Equation and something to calculate binomial probabilities. That would have been aged 14 to 15. I remember being introduced to programs in 8th grade by some crazy guy in my math class, so that would be 13 to 14. I guesstimate 14.
By interactive program, I mean a program that takes an input and returns an output based on that input. Hello World is not an interactive program. A program to check if a number is prime, return the nth Fibonacci number, or even to take your input and throw it back at you is an interactive program.
By write, I mean from your own brain. Being told how to do it by a tutorial, ie copying it down, does not count.
JS, PHP, Perl, Python, Java, the Cs, TI calculator programs, etc. If it runs on a computer, takes input, and spits output based on that, then it counts as a program.
If you are unsure of your exact age, guesstimate.
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I know I had several programs on my Calculator as a Freshman in Highschool. Quadratic Equation and something to calculate binomial probabilities. That would have been aged 14 to 15. I remember being introduced to programs in 8th grade by some crazy guy in my math class, so that would be 13 to 14. I guesstimate 14.