I clicked 10+ years because that's how long I've been programming continuously on a professional basis. However, I first programmed back in 1985 on a Compaq Deskpro Portable computer (640 KB of RAM! 40 MB hard disk! Only 30 lbs!). I started out with a custom AUTOEXEC.BAT file, and then moved into programming in GW-BASIC after a friend of my parents gave me a manual and encouraged me to poke around.
Later, I migrated to BASCOM and then QBbasic. Then I pretty much stopped programming completely after high school until I started again, more or less by accident, around 1999 when my boss asked if anyone knew how to make a web page. I thought, "How hard can it be?" and that became my gateway back into programming.
I started programming web applications in Classic ASP. I was somewhat astonished to see that the programming language was VBScript, which looked an awful lot like QBbasic with a few objects bolted on. Once Classic ASP was deprecated for .Net, I jumped over to Python as part of a more general move away from the Microsoft platform onto Linux.
Later, I migrated to BASCOM and then QBbasic. Then I pretty much stopped programming completely after high school until I started again, more or less by accident, around 1999 when my boss asked if anyone knew how to make a web page. I thought, "How hard can it be?" and that became my gateway back into programming.
I started programming web applications in Classic ASP. I was somewhat astonished to see that the programming language was VBScript, which looked an awful lot like QBbasic with a few objects bolted on. Once Classic ASP was deprecated for .Net, I jumped over to Python as part of a more general move away from the Microsoft platform onto Linux.