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At 15yo in 1986. I had a part time job at $5/hour working for a regional building supply company when minimum wage was $3.35. I carried a pager in high school in case there was an issue with the network. Before long I was make $7 while friends were stocking shelves and flipping burgers. I took a CO-OP position in college alternating semesters of work with semesters of school working for a consumer goods giant. That was a lot of walking around money back at school. Here I am in 2023, still technical. I have found with coding, languages and techniques come and go. The real value lies in being able to learn new things quickly and being able to think logically and communicate effectively. Anyone can be a good (insert language here) coder. But can you effectively understand business logic, find creative/innovative solutions to problems, gather and understand requirements, organize data, and effectively communicate with customers and your own team? This is where the value and growth path lies, unless you want to become a pointy headed boss instead.
17, breaking hacking protections. Not to distribute, but for the challenge. Mostly assembly code. Then wrote my own text editor.
Seriously, try to have fun with it and fall in love with coding. That is the biggest leg up. If you are in it for the money you will always be behind the curve.
I never wrote a line of code until I was about 24. I worked really hard and self taught while doing technical IT roles and identified work projects that would help me get better as a developer. After a lot of work I became a full time dev at AWS the year I turned 30. Find a thing that you like doing (web dev, game dev, embedded, etc.) and get really good at it by doing whatever projects you can. Don’t worry about the language. You can always pick up new syntax but it takes time and practice to learn programming. Just pick something common like Python, JavaScript, or Java and get really proficient with it.
Technically I started coding HTML, CSS and JavaScript as a teenager courtesy of MySpace, but I also took a programming class as a senior in high school. I did a brief, 5 month unpaid internship while in college and built a project there. My advice is learn cloud and DevOps technologies (AWS, Azure, Docker, etc.) wherever you can because the main thing that has held me back is not knowing those. I've used VB and C# for most of my career but knowing React, Python and JavaScript has been helpful.
Lol I was going to write this MySpace had us doing coding and we didn’t even know it.
I stated at 15 using basic under DOS, and then went onto intel assembler from there. The sooner you start the better but for me this was all before advent of internet lol. Today with the internet, the free tools and information out there the sky's the limit. I primarily code in assembler, C and C++ but had to learn Perl recently enough in a few days to make maintenance changes to an existing program. As far internships, mine during college was paid but I had friends who had cool gigs unpaid.
14, I started programming in Visual Basic writing progs for AOL. Mainly to scroll in chatrooms and dumb stuff like that.
Learned PHP, JS, HTML, and CSS around then to build sites.