[lbraasch]

It would be very interesting to cross correlate with age. Some programmers were exposed to code at a very young age. IMO, programming for 10+ yrs by age 20 is far more fascinating of a statistic than say programming for 15+ yrs by age 50.

I ticked 10+, and I am 26. I was designing 'web pages' when I was in middle school, albeit geocities html, but then had my first programming class (C++) when I was 15. Curly braces do not phase me.

[ra]

I first learned BASIC on a Sinclair ZX81 which I got for my 7th birthday. I'm now 37 so I just scrape into the 20+ range.

[ra]

oh wait.... 30 years! Now I feel old.

[sanxiyn]

I too am 26 and I ticked 10+. I wrote what I consider to be my first real program -- a program with users -- in 2001.

[weilawei]

19 years (a few months shy of 20) and I'm 23. I started with my dad's Commodore 64 and the BASIC reference manual. Flashing colors on the screen, followed by very simplistic text adventures.

[canop_fr]

I'm 40 and I don't know exactly if I started at 9, 10 or 11.