Most programming has not been around for 25 years, like flash and vB.
He said he is age 25 and only knows flash and vB programming.

As for me I have been programming for 2 and a half years.
I know some PHP. I work well with HTML, Javascript and CSS.

i first learned Algol (who remembers that language ?) I really started with Fortran, a looong time ago.

I've heard of algol, never dabbled in it. Although I might eventually, researching old programming languages is a hobby of mine. My favorite language is assembly. And I'm currently looking for a punch card computer.

~Viz

Currently 16, started making webpages in Frontpage in about grade 9, moved up to Dreamweaver a bit later. I basically learned HTML because Dreamweaver was sometimes a bit reluctant to do things my way, so that taught me basic discipline. Next I tried C++ in grade 10, which I failed miserably (I mean *miserably*) at.

Kinda gave up programming anything for a little while, then in grade 12 I started learning PHP. Since PHP is interpreted, it actually gave me feedback on runtime errors (unlike my C++ programs, which just crashed). Made me feel a bit better when I got stuff working

I'm currently doing MATLAB for my engineering/science course and picked it up pretty well, so I can say I know two real languages (PHP and MATLAB) plus HTML and CSS, the last two inside-out and back to front.

I'm 23 years old, and I'm programming for 5 years. First I started on C/C++ on Borland Compiler. And now I'm using Java on Eclipse and NetBean Applications.

Well, I'm currently (as of two weeks ago ) 16 years old, but I started programming at the tender age of 7. I was first taught QBasic by the big brother of a friend, and I moved on to teaching myself other languages. I don't quite remember when I learned HTML, but it was definately there somewhere. Afterwards, I learned Javascript, in quite an interesting way: by copying "window.alert()" commands from other websites into my own. Somewhere along the line my parents bought me a JS book which I treasured and read thoroughly quite a few times. Anyways, here is a list of all languages I've dabbled/fully occupied myself with (not in a chronological order):

• QBasic (quite a lot)
• Javascript (a whole lot)
• Visual Basic (a whole lot)
• Python (just beginning)
• C(++) (never built a major application with it, but quite a lot)
• ASP (a lot)
• PHP (recently started, but managed a lot)
• mIRC Scripting (a lot, even thuogh I never built a full script)
• Java (just a little bit)
• ActionScript (thwarted by my inability in designing!)

I do think that's it...

It all started in school with Frontpage 5 years ago. Several moths later my big brother bought book, which helped me studing html and javascript. I liked scripting very much, so I wanted learn more.
Maybe 3 years ago I started learn PHP. Now I know very much about html, javascript, php and mysql. Also I know more than something about ASP, ActionScript and Turbo Pascal.

Uhhh wow, well I have only been using computers for the last 4 years so I'm a bit behind some of you guys. I got into things pretty early though.

I started off with playing around in mIRC on MSN Chat when it used to be free about 2 weeks after I got my first computer (Win95, 2m Vid Card, 333mhz Celeron, 64mb RAM, heh heh).

I learnt how to do mIRC scripting and got into doing dialoged script heavily for abot 6-8 months and then came across Visual Basic 6. I pretty much left the mIRC/MSN scene and it was around the time that MSN introduced having to pay for it and such around that time anyway.

I did VB6 for about a year or so, just making MP3 Players and stuff that I used myself, played around with WinSock and such doing IM applications etc.

I finally had, had enough of VB6 and Runtime dependancy's so I did some searching, tryed C++ (Bit too difficult for me at the time), Python (God awful POS).

And then finally I found Borland's product Delphi (Object Pascal) which I love and hug each and everyday , I haven't switched since, so about 2 and going on 3 years now.

I do use C++ often now aswell for Dynamic Link Library's and even played around with QBasic (What fun) on Windows 3.11 on an old laptop when my computer died and couldn't get it up and running for about a week.

I also learned HTML/JScript/VBScript/CSS/PHP/MySQL and various other web programming and probably other scripting languages aswell along the last 4 years.

See, our schools are crap. The closest we get to programming is using a standard calculator to make math lol.

However, this said I started programming only a couple of months ago. I started out with C, didn't like it and have moved onto C++. I'm also taking up VB for college. I'm comfortable with the scripting language Javascript, markup langauge HTML, styling CSS and currently I am learning PHP. I've also tried ASP and I fairly comfortable with it (I can 'parse' it and understand but when it comes to making applications I get so far and stick). So really I am learning three languages at once - PHP, C++ and VB.

Pretty bad, I know, blame it on the education system in the UK and the extremely periodic change of our scheme of work.

@twitch, our schools are crap too. >< They offered Java and C++, but then the C++ teacher cuts class every single day. He never bothers teaching, and simply gives everyone an A for no good reason. At least the Java teacher is better...

Anyways, my first language was Java, then I learned C++, though I didn't really learn much of it. Afterwards I moved on to Javascript because I thought that would be a good addition to my current collection of HTML and CSS. Eventually I decided I needed to learn PHP, so I learned that, and it turned out to be really easy. I'm probably going to try to learn C and review my very crappy C++ next.