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I will hit 20* years this December. I first discovered CodeProject at work and it certainly helped with many issues that I worked on back then.
*I had been using it for a few years before I created an account.
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Definitely, although in the last few years it feels somehow overwhelming. So many new areas and technologies added. Stuff that one only hears about but never uses.
forging iron and new ideas
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Agree, I look at some stuff now and it doesn't make much sense to me. I remember spending a weekend learning C from K&R, so I could start a new project the following week. Now it takes me as long as I spent on that project to learn any new language (or even some features).
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Since I started heavily back into C++, moving from C# as a primary I've been so lost in learning the nooks and crannies that I don't have time for other languages.
The blessing and curse of C++ is that it takes more than a single lifetime to master.
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https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
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honey the codewitch wrote: The blessing and curse of C++ is that it takes more than a single lifetime to master.
Mainly because they keep "improving" it. 
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Haha, i think even with just C++17 you're looking at more than a lifetime.
The problem is not in mastery of the syntax and core functionality, but in how to apply it. There is so much magic in the application of C++ fundamentals to do amazing things that there are rabbit holes everywhere. It sometimes seems endless. template alone contains worlds.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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19 years, 1 month ...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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20 years this November.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I think I may have been? But I lost my original account at some point I think during a codeproject upgrade, or maybe I just locked myself out of it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Nahhh, never. You are not even that old yet. 
forging iron and new ideas
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I've been coding since 1986. Offa my lawn.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Welcome to the 80's club then
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Is there a 70's club? I started in 1974 at University but went professions in 1986, so I suppose I'm an 80's club member! 
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My first "professional" gig, was when I was 15 years old in '78. Programming some office utilities in UCSD Pascal. So 45 years since then.
But I started programming personally much before then. I think I first started learning all this when I was 10, and actually got to play with a friends TRS-80 a few years later.
In that time, Ive got work with so many types of software - embedded video software, modding system Bios software, a the way through to major web sites, enterprise and gov't systems.
Its been a wild ride 😉
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Professional coding: equally since 1986. Hobby since 1980 and I am still doing it. Something about it must be fun.
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I've been coding professionally since 1981, as a hobby since 1978.
As someone else said, it's been a wild ride.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The last time I made a living by coding was before 1986.
Will Rogers never met me.
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*backs gingerly off of your lawn*
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I made my first DOS programming with the Spectrum 128k in the 80es as a kid and helped my oldest brother (in college) to install and get started with win 3.11 at the age of 11. Got my own Pentium II with 150 MHz some time later but I really started (seriously) programming around the 2000s with C, then Borland C++, PALs, PICs, Telemechanique Grafcets (which I liked a lot), VC++ 6... then I changed to industry PLCs (I really liked the Grafcets ) missing the introduction of c# and .Net Framework and many other things afterwards. When I left PLCs as main field I got like   what's all that? And I came back to my CP account to get up to date again... never left after that.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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I think I've been on here about 13 years - not sure where to check.
Really only been writing software for a living since the late 80's but started coding at school on a time share computer in about '74. Bit of dabbling with 8080 and Z80 micros during the late 70's/early 80's
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Alister Morton wrote: I think I've been on here about 13 years - not sure where to check.
13 Years and 8 Months. (Check in your profile under the reputation below your profile picture)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Hmmm, just looked where it allows an avatar to be uploaded and I can't see anything indicating how long I've been here, which is weird.
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Click on your nickname up right corner.
You land on your profile.
Center right side, that's is the current profile pic / avatar. In my case is a geometric form (Squares of several sizes and some X on the corners)
Below that is my reputations score, my given profession and my time in CP (for me some 17 yers and 5 months now)
You can upload a profile picture / avatar if you go to "My settings" on the left menu and then the first register "Account". Here you can change your email, your nick, your password and your picture (right side "select profile image")
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Ah, brilliant, thanks. I was clicking on "my settings" in the drop down menu.
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you are welcome 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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