Age: 20
Preferred language(s): ANSI-C, python, x86
Educational background: Second year of a bachelor degree in Computational Sciences looking to get a master in Fluid Mechanics
Experience: 1.something years.
Job: Technically N/A, however I do work for a student union in a bar but only get benefits without pay
How did you start programming?: Technically in high school with TI-BASIC if that can be considered programming, first year of university is probably the real answer though (python).
What was your first ``real'' program?: Well I haven't really made anything big, I made a tripcode cracker thing which reads tripcodes on every imageboard front page and runs them versus whatever words are in /usr/share/dict/.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-09 5:20
Age: 29
Preferred language(s): C++, C, C# in that order for general purpose stuff, Lisp/Scheme for DSLs.
Educational background: MSc in CS from UBC (focused on image analysis and artificial vision systems).
Experience (in years): 15 years total, 8 years professionally, another 7 years before that as an amateur/hobbyist and in university.
Job title (if applicable): Senior Software Engineer (I always found such job titles in the software industry to be a joke, as most people don't have real engineering degrees).
How did you start programming?: QBASIC on DOS 5.0, quickly moved on to Pascal, then C and went from there.
What was your first ``real'' program?: On my first day programming with BASIC after deciphering what everything did in a ~15 line BASIC code snippet from a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica on ``Computers'' (I had no formal programming books or access to the Internet at that time), I wrote a character sheet generator for a paper and pencil RPG. On my second day I wrote a text adventure game with a simple RPG style combat system. I didn't know yet about subroutines/functions, so there was a lot of copy-and-paste style programming going on.
Age: 26
Preferred language(s): Python
Educational background: Civil Engineer
Experience (in years): I started programming on PASCAL and C on 2002, but nothing serious, just some exercises from a book i got online, just programming as a hobby
How did you start programming?
Some guy needed a guy who could code to automatize some shit he needed
What was your first ``real'' program?
A program that transformed a "really long" XLS file (+5000 lines) using a set of rules into another XLS file, usually doing it by hand would result in a couple of weeks of hard work, with my program that time got reduced to a couple of minutes (seconds to process, just minutes to give the desired format, the format changes and it is easier to do by hand that to code it)
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-10 6:40
- 19
- Perl 6, C
- Studying CS
- In programming, I assume? Something around 4-5 years
- Web admin. Yeah, I know. I'm doing this for like 2 hours a month, so it's not that bad
- I found a Pascal tutorial in a gaming magazine
- No idea. Oh, maybe some drawing program in SEEPLES
Age: 20
Preferred language(s): Haskell, Scala, C.
Educational background: Third-year CS undergrad.
Experience (in years): Programming? Eight years or so.
Job title (if applicable): N/A, only done some freelance stuff.
How did you start programming? PHP. :(
What was your first ``real'' program?
What are the criteria? I wrote a few moderately complex web apps before and during high school, but apart from that it was probably a cellular automaton simulator.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-10 22:30
Age: 15.
Preferred language(s): C, lisp, tcl.
Educational background: '()
Experience (in years): 2
Job title (if applicable): (void *)0
How did you start programming?
One day I had nothing to do, I started learning C.
What was your first ``real'' program?
A ncurses-based filemanager.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-10 23:32
Age: 19
Preferred language(s): C, Python, ASM(x86)
Educational background: None pertaining to programming
Experience (in years): 1
How did you start programming? Trying out programs on my Linux box, and played around with IDLE(Python) for eight hours one day, making simple little calculators and a grammar checker for German.
What was your first ``real'' program? A simple German Grammar checker, first day programming so it was horrible, SO MANY if and elif statements.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-11 1:30
22
C++, C, bash
Associates in CS, 2 semesters shy of BS in CS
~ 7 years experience due to school, ~ 6 months serious work experience
Software Engineer is what it says, my job is to take a mostly unusable library my company is developing and make it usable
First semester in school, java class, followed by two C++ classes
I wrote a program for managing my anime collection, but its still unfinished. The end goal is for you to be able to use it to manage any form of video media, it would keep track of the order of movies/episodes/specials that it should play and where you are, playing the next one by calling mplayer when you tell it to.
>>56
Thank you for your insight. I, too, believe that cretins bumping a shitty thread with shitty personal information are as detrimental as >>54 frowning upon (even if quite gratuitously) said shitty thread.
Age: 17
Preferred language(s): Java
Educational background: Still in high school.
Experience (in years): 4 years
Job title (if applicable): I contribute to an open-source project that helps people cheat at a game called RuneScape.
How did you start programming? Writing scripts in pascal for SCAR and then moving on to writing scripts in java for RSBot and eventually contributing to the RSBot API.
What was your first ``real'' program? I programmed a program that can program programs.
>>10 Age: 13 Preferred language(s): HTML Educational background: school for the special people Experience (in years): 1 week Job title (if applicable): Web developer. How did you start programming?: I just did it. What was your first ``real'' program?: some boring website nobody is ever going to visit
I have noticed that >>10,62 were the only one who took time to make the questionnaire not look like shit. The rest are probably proportional font users.