How long have you been programming?

[lAmoebal]

This isn't a specific question regarding a certain program or anything, so if this is in the wrong forum, feel free to move it. :confused:

I was just curious how long everyone here has been programming, and how long with C++? The reason I'm asking is I'm curious as to how long it took people like Narue to become as proficient as they are with the language. :P

I personally have been programming for ~4 years now, and worked with C++ for probably about 2-3 of those years. About the first two years were all on really basic console programs since I took a C++ class in high school and my first few classes in college were basic C++ courses.

Edit - Since plgriffith posted the other languages he's worked with, I guess I will too.

I've also worked with some Pascal, Assembly, SQL, Java, PHP, HTML and now starting to play around with Perl a little at work. I haven't really gone in depth with any of these languages though, C++ has always been my main focus.

[plgriffith]

I have been programming for five semesters now. At least one class each semester uses C++ so I would say I've been programming in C++ for about three years. I've also gotten to play around with Java, Scheme, MySQL, etc.

[Lensva]

since september in pascal and about a month is c++ :D

[lAmoebal]

That sounds like exactly how I started out.

My high school offered Pascal and C++ and I started out with Pascal and then took the C++ course before I moved on to doing it in college, and now trying to make a career out of it. :P

[jwenting]

hmm, not quite sure when I started programming.
It was using IBM Advanced BASIC on an IBM 5155 PC Portable, which was sold roughly in 1983/84. That makes well over 20 years now.

[Narue]

>I'm curious as to how long it took people like Narue to
>become as proficient as they are with the language.
About 10 years in C++, about 12 years total.

[sarehu]

About 8 years on computers, 18 years if you count recreational algorithm invention not conducted on computers.

[hammerhead]

4 years for me.

[rinoa04]

Have been programming for 4 years. I started programming during my college time. Learn quite a few language such as C++, Java, PHP, ASP.NET, C#. But all are mostly basic and hence not master in any of it.

[Auzzie]

C++ 2 Months
PHP - 5 Months
ASP - 1 Year
HTML - 1 Year
CSS - 5 Months
JS/DHTML/AJAX - 3 weeks
FORTRAN - 1 month
VB - 3 Months

That is my total so far, and i have been programming for no more then a year

[majestic0110]

3 years for me, started with C, now I am on C# via Java

[fm_001]

Java - 3 Months
VB - 3 Months
SQL - 3 Months

Just a beginner programmer.

[Ancient Dragon]

I started in 1980, a few years before I retired from the USA military.

[hammerhead]

^ 1980's cool. What language did you use back then? It must be really cool to see how programming evolved to the level it is today. I cant even begin to imagine.

[Aia]

I keep programming to start programming some day.

[Ancient Dragon]

^ 1980's cool. What language did you use back then? It must be really cool to see how programming evolved to the level it is today. I cant even begin to imagine.

I used HP (Hewlette Packard) Basic, which was more like a mixture of Pascal and Basic. A really nice language in its day, and data storage was on 8 1/2 inch glass diskettes that looked a lot like 33 1/3 RPM records \

Then we got our first real PC -- ran a whopping lightening-fast 128 mz cpu with 64k memory, two 5 1/2 inch single-sided floppy drives and no hard drive and MS-DOS version 1.0 which did not support sub-directories, everything was in the root folder. We got a C compiler (Lattice C) that all fit on one of the diskettes and the data was on the other disk. When I started a compile it took so long to finish that I went to another desk and read a book or did other things. That version of Lattice C implemented the original K&R style C programs.

[Agni]

2 1/2 years for me .... and i realise that it'll take me time to be a pro in c++ . In contrast i see people who use Java become proficient much quickly. There was a time i was thinking of shifting to Java(around a year back) but then stuck to c++ and now i'm in love with it. It's always so challenging....

[technogeek_42]

C++ = more basic in 1 semester.....
C lang = C++
vb6=C++
qbasic = C++

all of language i know is BASIC........

[majestic0110]

Am I missing something crucial here? That makes no sense at all Technogeek!

[Nick Evan]

I've been programming for 3 years. Mostly C (for uControllers), but also C++ and a little bit of VB.net & PHP.
Made my first program 15 years ago on a Commodore 64.

10 print "Hello!"
20 goto 10

;) That makes no sense at all Technogeek!
Technogeek's posts rarely do ;)