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14. year 2007.
C Programming Language.
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Don't knock C.
If you learn it well, you can piss all over Java experts -- in Java.
Once you understand what's happening with memory, the language/syntax is the easy bit.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well said!
That's why i switched to assembly when i got bored of moving asterisks around.
I needed to outsmart my friends and move ALL of the characters on the screen.
Made a nice wheel of all of them.
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I didn't knock C.
Why should I knock C? It's my first programming language learned.
And I'm so thankful to it. Learning C is my foundation on learning other languages.
is for myself.
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8 or 9 years old, with Visual Basic (actually VBA in Excel). An uncle taught me about programming and we built a Tamagotchi-like thing together.
I'm 23 now 
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9 - 10 years old, and my first line of code was a BASIC 'CIRCLE' command on an ICE Felix HC 91. Good memories 
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I was about 14 years old when I started coding in Applesoft Basic. After a few years I graduated to 6502 assembler code. That was when I got hold of an 6502 assembler. Before that it was 'peek' and 'poke' in basic or hand assembling the code and typing in the resulting hex dump!
Kim
Senior System Developer
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10.
I still remember making the computer beep with 10 sound statements. Then I discovered the for loop. Awesome!
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I was 18yo. I coded some ActionScript for the web site of a friend's father.
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7-8 on a VIC 20 (and black and white TV). That would have been around 1994.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. [Chinese Proverb]
Jonathan C Dickinson (C# Software Engineer)
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Messing around on a Commodore 16 (BASIC) following the manual hunting for symbols, odd thing most people here appear to have tried some form of Commodore Basic, which was I believe a Microsoft product!
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Fourteen, I guess. It would have been 1979 or '80 in boarding school, and it would have been BASIC on a TRS-80 hooked up to a Philips cassette player and an old Pye B&W TV set. The program would probably have been along the lines of:
10 PRINT "FATHER GALLOGLY IS A BOLLOCKS."
20 GOTO 10
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I gess I was 15. BASIC and Apple IIc. Good times!
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It depends what you call a line of code.
When I was 5 or 6, my dad brought home a Burroughs dumb terminal without any sort of storage at all. Later we got a tape drive so we could save stuff, truly something to make you remember stiffy drives with something like fondness.
My older brother was the true driver of the process, but we had a couple of dot-matrix printouts of program listings, entirely ones & zeros, pages of the stuff, and if you typed them in without any errors, you got space invaders, pacman, or the like. If you made a mistake later in the listing, you might still be able to recover and fix the mistake, but an early typo was instant death.
So, my brother and I would enter this lot over a couple of hours, he would use some arcane trick to make it run, then the terminal was left on for a couple of days or weeks until we lost interest.
Then I went on to study chemistry, and only came back to programming in my mid-20's. COBOL, to show my age. Although really when I started COBOL, people had been calling it a dead language for decades.
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10!
With this!
And i won't ever forget the first days of playing with it!
Behzad
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I was 9 when I wrote my first line of code, and it was in BASIC programming language. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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I was 20. In the year '66, when I was student at Liege university.
Fortran on IBM 360 first. Later: fortran (IBM 370), edl (IBM Series 1), assembler (PC), and now c/c++ whith PHP, javascript, etc
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16 VB6 it was like magic I'm order the computer write whatever I want 
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Probably about 19. We only had mainframes back then. I had to be trained to use an IBM card punch before I was allowed to write my first line of code in Fortran IV. Those, writes he, wiping the beer froth from his mouth and putting the glass down on the table followed by a resounding belch of satifaction, now those were the days of development.
Edit: Card punch[^]. Don't waste time looking for a backspace/delete key. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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1986, I was 9.
We had an optional course in the 4th grade, programming on a Commodore 64.
At the age of 12 I became an C128D which I used to write a paint programm. With 14 I bought my own paint programm at the supermarket published on a disk magazine. That was a great experience.
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Just turned 11. First "instructions" involved our Maths class directing our teacher from the door to his desk, using only a "turn right", "turn left", "walk" and "stop" instruction set. He ended up bruised but we (well me at least) learnt some basic concepts of coding. Next lesson we were introduced to Elliot 903 machine code and after some simple paper exercises, a couple of weeks later used a single-hole manual punch (i.e. a square bit of metal you poked through one of 8 holes in a template) to make holes in a punch card. The cards took more than two weeks to return from the University with our punching errors. By the end of the following term we'd multiplied two numbers together. Basic came the following year and the year after that I'd written my first Cobol "compiler" (actually an interpreter) itself written in Basic... (the others were mucking about with StarTrek games; I was writing a Cobol compiler...   why???)
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1968, 17 years old, COBOL on a IBM 360/40 - a REAL computer with flashing lights on the front
Everything comes to him that waits. Come on, Camelot, I'm waiting...
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2006 A.D 14 yrs old when I wrote my first hello world program in Qbasic......
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First time was in October 1973, I was 21 at computer engineer school, language APL on a teletype with punched tape computer : IRIS 80 under system SIRIS 7, and it was the Fibonacci suite...
And last time I wrote a line of code was this morning, 40 years later, take or leave 2 weeks, it was VB on a PC, and it was modelization of a Robot in 3D.
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