When'd you start coding?
 

I got that idea from Princeton who said when he started coding in his modship thread (by the way, congrats on the becoming a [s]mut[/s]moderator, you might someday have world domination plans ^___^). So, uhh, when did you start, and what was the reason?

I started learning php on about October-November 2005, to mod my vbulletin :)

About other programming languages... Ermmm about 6 years ago...

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

When I entered the *nix world. :p I learned Perl first, but then switched to PHP.

JumpD, pssh, you rebel.
I started in June, last year, with HTML, because I was kinda surprised by what a coder I knew could do. Then in the end of the summer (September), I started learning javascript and after a month or two PHP and MySQL, and last weekend I learned some XML/XSL (PHP, MySQL, XML and XSL for coding vB, first two for obvious reasons, XML so I could understand how the navigation frame of the admin CP is made and XSL to display XML like HTML). Though, from PHP, besides the basics (loops, switches, conditionals etc.), I only know how to connect and extract/insert/drop/delete/blah blah data from databases using MySQL.
Sorry for writing the story of my life again.

I started coding late 2006 (Nov-Dec) the great and almighty Zero Tolerance got me involved when he helped me create my first modification, it's progressed from there really :p

Damn! YOU TRAVELED INTO THE FUTURE TO LEARN!!! All bow to the 1337 one!

So whats php 6 like? Hows the ps3?

XD.

I'm starting to code right now. I'm trying to get the basics down.

I started in 1975, using FORTRAN on a mainframe. :)

Started about 6 years ago with basic HTML stuff on ezboards. From there, I moved on to basic Perl stuff with UBB.classic and now PHP & MySQL with vBulletin..

I must admit, however - I've never read a coding tutorial in my life.

Started approx 10 years ago with html, moving from that to perl/php then branching into c/c++/java/python.

Guys, HTML is not coding!

A definition of coding:
:p
Anyway, I also know some crappy Java and C++. And Blind Guardian, a member here, is the guy who got me into coding (see meh previous post), though I've never really talked to him.

Technically no as it doesnt have logic/procedures etc... but it is a loosly typed syntax which is parsed to display data on the screen ;)

So is it a programming language? No.. is it coding? Yes.

I started in 1980 - programming in basic on an Apple. Picked up Pascal in 1991 in college, moved on to C and C++ in the mid 90's - also for school. Started with Perl when I bought UBB 6 years ago, and PHP when I bought Vbulletin 5 years ago.

Most of my programming has been non-web stuff. Software for radars and encrypted phones, applications for handheld pcs used in the field by exterminators, etc. So, I don't have a huge depth of web programming or database knowledge.

I don't even remember, a few years back with HTML and I learned a bit of CGI/Perl/whatever you want to call it but thats all really, never expanded to PHP (did a bit and gave up) and now I have no time or need to learn anything else. :p

Actually, it's a presentation language. Or markup as it's called.

Thats pretty much what I said Gandalf ;)

Quotes myself:
"but it is a loosly typed syntax which is parsed to display data on the screen"

And no, it isnt a programming language as I stated, but it is coding ;)

Around a year and a half ago (though I really didn't start learning anything until a year ago).

lmao! I can't believe I done that... I even checked the date again before I posted... one of them moments I guess :p

PHP6 Is not the future though, i use it along side of php 5.1.3-dev right now :)

Well, technically not - but there's not much point in learning PHP and MySQL for example, if you can't effectively display the output with (X)HTML or CSS.. Of course, that's in my opinion.

Well it seems that i manage pretty well in releasing my hacks with zero HTML/CSS knowledge. :D

If you guys want to be super technical. PHP is not coding either, it's scripting. ;)

Doesn't really matter though except to the elite programing snooties who feel they are owed fancy titles for sitting through years of boring lectures in order to have their brains programed to program.

For the rest of us, well, we just try to fill our toolbox with as much as we can to get the job done. A tool by any other name is still a tool.

So wether it's coding, programing, scripting, hacking, or nose picking, learn all that you can and call it what you want.

in the end does it really matter, ;)

Isn't that what I just said?

i was agreeing ;) You sure are edgy to be 45 :/

Ditto.

(...... well okay, a very limited knowledge ;))