At what age did you start programming? - CS50 Office Hours 2020

Office hours are an opportunity for students online to ask questions about any of CS50's courses, questions about computer science, questions about programming, and the like.

In this clip: At what age did you start programming and what languages did you start with?

Recorded 18 June 2020

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[zaran]

I completed and got certified in CS50 at the age of 14.

[darius_ljljljlj]

I started at the age of 3 with machine code and Malbolge

[helloactualhuman]

0:58 I like everytime when he does that.Specially when he describe shorts.

[NewError]

I had no idea what i was doing until two years ago

[mufaddalmandviwalla]

I'm doing cs50 right now after completing the entire Khan Academy at age 12. I am currently 13.

[abashimov]

I started at 19, from the book which I downloaded online (C++)
Unfortunately, I didn’t know about CS50 back then.

[AnandKumar-srvg]

I started since 14 and python is my first programming language

[AntonioAstorino]

I started with BASIC at the age of 6 on a Commodore 64. I still remember SYS64738. Does anyone know it?

[prashanttimalsina]

I started at 11, qbasic was my first programming language

[mohamednasser]

i started at 13, Python is my first language (i'm 14 now)

[khaledwaleed]

I started at 11 and my first language was learning and I used was HTML

[reimeytal]

Started at 13 years old (last year) with Python. I know now Python, JavaScript, C, SQL and am currently learning C++.

[allenl]

So 40 is probably too late to start learning programming 😅