Honestly don’t remember, but I do remember (oddly) the first time I saw someone coding in person. It was in a California mall radio shack and I think the guy was late teens or twenties. Demonstrated writing and running a BASIC graphics program. Thought it looked so cool. Must have been trs80?
Probably eight or nine. On a TI-99/4A. We also had an Atari 400, but the BASIC cartridge didn't work- and it the language didn't come in the system's fixed ROM.
The first one that actually said "Hello World!" was a year later on the Sinclair ZX-80 (which I still have). I also think it didn't say "Hello World!" I think it said:
10 PRINT "POOP"
20 GOTO 10
At school in the 70's - We had to punch cards and send them to a university which would process them. We'd get the results back in about 2 weeks! Interactive programming!
7 or 8 years old. Definitely before I learned English. I used all those words without knowing what they mean. I just cared for what they did for the program.
I don’t recall, pretty sure it was on Texas Instrument TO82 Silver Edition calc using TI Basic, so maybe 15? Could be also Batch file, around 15 as well.
Oh wait, I was actually more like 13 … It was on a LX200 palm computer from HP iirc, it was a Dos script. My grand father had this exceptional hardware and gave it to me when he got a Jordana. Crazy 😎!
Basic, Commodore 64, 14 years old.
Then started writing more fun stuff (password application that ran on startup, space battle simulator) the next year in QBasic on my DOS 286.
I was around 12, if I remember correctly. Perhaps not a typical hello world - tt was a simple branching programme, comparing two numbers provided as input and then printing out an answer based the comparison outcome.
19, Fortran, on punch cards which were collected from pigeon holes by operators, batch run on an early ICL mainframe, and the program and result cards were returned by the operators a few hours later.
How: Get a BASH command line on Linux/Unix, learn to find your way around a file system and some command lines using a tutorial, then edit a few commands into a text file and run them as a command.
Why: Because the cloud runs on Linux/Unix and you want to manage services from there.
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10 PRINT "POOP"
20 GOTO 10
Because Hello World was not a thing in BASIC books.
BASIC on a Commodore Pet
Not sure if it counts since I was just copying a chess game from the 'Input' magazine. 😅
Then started writing more fun stuff (password application that ran on startup, space battle simulator) the next year in QBasic on my DOS 286.
Why: Because the cloud runs on Linux/Unix and you want to manage services from there.