it's interesting.

i've been programming for 5 years. my major is java programming. now i'm studying rational rose and uml .

Eh, I'll never consider myself a programmer. I started about 9 years ago on Pascal, then switched to C++ and Java. I ditched the C++, got sick of Java, and throw in some HTML and you basically have my programming experience. I've since picked up PHP and SQL, though only casually.

I hear you. Although I have learned a lot of programming langauges, I haven't taken the time to learn more. I only know a little of each language I learn. I'll never consider myself a programmer... I know a lot of HTML because that was the first thing I learned. I wished I could have learned how to program younger (say 2nd grade) to catch up with everyone else...

I have programmed for four years... four years of little programming though...

In my book, you're both programmers, whether or not you consider yourself in that category. If you've ever done any programming, you are a programmer.

~Viz

wow, about 5 years now. started with C++ and C, went to java (swing), vb &nd vb.net, c# and some others. still love C++ though. although C# is really easy to make nice GUI-apps.

and scripting... well, i'm pretty good in bash scripting and stuff, awk, php, javascript, vbscript, and some more, can't think of em right now.

still.. i heart C++

Been programming for a long time now..

I started using pascal and then quicked stepped to turbo pascal.. At the same time I found some interesting scripting in MSDOS systems which is the ANSI console programming and the minor batch files.

A year later I start to move on to turbo C and started do embark in interest in hex-editing and I manage to found out how command.com used to load files and translate built-in commands.

All built-in commands in command.com was in plain text so if you want to disable DATE internal dos command, just load the command.com in hex-editor and replace the word DATE with four spaces. Carefull though cause if you overwrote the wrong byte, the program crashes.

Not long after that I found my first interest in assembly language and further understand the hex codes that I load daily in my hex editor. With that I learn what hex values means in actually assembly programming.

At this time, I am writing mixed languages prgragmming embedding assembly codes [obj] in turbo pascal and C++.

at about 1998-2000 I made my first GUI based software made of pure delphi interprise builder and my first website coded in DHTML.

Years later I am making tons of websites and scripts for a price written in PHP and MySQL and some DHTML.

As of this moment, I am deep into mastering Java and currently trying to build up an ERP program.

As you can see, I have never touched basic programming software that mostly have knowledge and I have not touched a pre desktop machine. Now It is nice to run test on bigger server machines and test some stuffs on routers.

Of all the programming languages that I have touched, I think the most valuable one is the Java programming which enables me to build a software and just send them a cd with different java virtual machine installer and the main program itself without worrying if my program will actually run or not.

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NOTE: I dont have any formal programming training and all of them was just learn from trial and error and some books. My advancements from year 2000 mas made faster thru the aid of internet and forums like this.

I can't remember exactly when I began programming; I'd have to say around 5th or 6th grade. I first programmed in BASIC on an Apple IIGS. Then when my parents finally got a PC a moved on the QBasic. The stuff I did back then was real simple, Hello World type programs.

Then, after several failed attempted I was able to teach myself C++. I got ahold of the game library Allegro and that is when I really started loving to program. It is one thing to print text out on the screen, but it is way cooler (at least to a 12-year old) when you can draw stuff on the screen.

When I got to high school I made the switch from Dos to Windows programming. I also switched from Allegro to Directx so I could start drawing 3-D stuff (which was even cooler ). Up through high school my only focus was on making games. I thought any other kind of programming was boring. Luckily, I don't still feel that way, although I do still love to make games.

Since then I've expanded my horizons into other languages and other areas of programming. I've learned C#, Java, and have looked some at PHP. I'm in college now, which means I've been programming for about 10 years. Now my goal is to learn as many different languages as I can and get experience in many different areas.

Well... you all have been programming wayyyy longer than me now. I've just started to learn ASP.NET, PHP, and JavaScript. I'm 15 now, and probably wouldn't have gotten into webdesign if I hadn't tried to add music and images into subprofile, but it turned out that AIM can't render html. So, I decided to make my own webpage. Quickly realizing that my website was very simple, I began to look at source codes of other sites and realized that I needed to learn a few new things. That brings me to the present, which I'm currently typing this with an ASP.NET book in front of me.

I have really only programmed for about 3 years, but then again, I am only 16 years old.

I started with QBASIC, then LibertyBASIC (well, same language, different compiler and OS). Now I'm an avid Java fan, and planning to go into C++. And of course I do HTML (which I don't really consider a programming language), PHP, and JavaScript.

P.S. Anyone need help with Java, I'm always available.

My first game programming was on the 6502 machine code on an Ohio Superboard
The output was two rows of LEDS, one horizontal and one vertical