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I was 12 when I wrote a BASIC program for friends that wanted a program to show people's biorhythms at a school festival. Alas, I haven't made much progress since then.
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21, at university. And technically I didn't write it - I punched it into a punch card.
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14 or so, started fiddling around with GWBASIC 
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12 years old, wrote my first bit of JavaScript. One of the first really great things I learned was the for loop. I think my first use was something like:
for (i=0; i<1000; i++) {
document.write(i);
}
I was incredibly excited when I realized I could get my browser to print every number from 1 to 1000. I was even more excited when I realized that if I added enough zeroes, the browser would crash and die.
And so began an interesting journey into breaking stuff...
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i was about 13 when i taught my self c++
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Age 11, sixth grade, was when I was first exposed to BASIC. And I mean *really* *basic* BASIC. That was 1972, so we worked on TeleTypes with infinite rolls of Grade ZZZ paper and paper-tape punches to save our files. Later the school got a Linolex, which saved stuff on regular cassette tapes, then we got a Wang 2200, also with cassettes -- and a keyboard in alphabetical order!
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Pretty sure that would have been 16 or 17, in 1973/74. Ah, the sound of of the paper tape reader on the TTY. That takes me back....
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Anyone remember/have the Digi-Comp 1? The "First real digital computer in plastic"? 1963. I was 7. That counts. It needed programming. I got my first paying job in 1968 (12) in high school, programming something called the Wang calculator for the physics teachers. Been at it ever since. Now building eCommerce systems handling $9 billion USD annually. What a fun industry we chose!
The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -– Dorothy Parker
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About 10 on a TRS-80, trying to create my own versions of Adventure and Haunted House. From there, moved onto PIMS, their first database. 
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Depends on what qualifies as a line of code:
If LOGO qualifies then it was 7
If BASICA/QBASIC qualifies, then my age was 9
Wrote for C++ when I was 11
Wrote for VB when I was 13
All on a 40/66/100MHz 486 with 8MB and later 16MB RAM. 
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Nice, though ToolBar would be a bit more interesting, if you know what I mean 
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Both are awesome and funny as hell! 
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/ravi
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Photoshop ?
"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"
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I won't be going there again; it takes too long to get a beer.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hmm. Somewhere between "You're aggressive and cantankerous, hiding a heart of gold" and "You've grown thick skin, and could probably battle smaller species of bears". Fairly apt, I think.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I am a total Guinness guy, not sure exactly where I land....
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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I am a "Pilsener" kind of guy, I even like it..
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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vonb wrote: I even like it
That's quite an achievement.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I am reserving my comment until MM posts his.
I respect his opinion absolutely.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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DaveAuld wrote: I wonder where "Tactical nuclear penguin" fits on this list
At £35 a bottle[^], it's probably in the "more money than sense" category.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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