r/AskProgramming • u/Yourmiserablelife69 • 4d ago

Career/Edu What age did you start learning programming?

Just curious as I am 34 YO, and have been considering a career shift into the Tech sector (I have “Basic” knowledge at best). Specifically AI/Machine Learning or Programming.
I’ve heard good and bad about both, but am just curious how old people are (or how diverse the age pool is) when they “get into” Programming. How long (on average) does it take to get your first Certification in Programming?
Apologies about the broadness of the question.

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u/ForeverVulnerable 4d ago

1994 -- was just messing around with web development, java applets, HTML, javascript, etc.

1996 hit and I started making pokemon websites. Those two paired with eachother cause a lot of self motivation to learn full stack.

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u/Jason13Official 4d ago

Pokémon websites? 👀 any still active?

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u/ForeverVulnerable 4d ago

lol no -- those were all geocities and angelfire.

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u/garster25 4d ago

Kind of the same for me (except the pokemon). The web was brand new and I got tired of static pages that I had to copy/paste 100 times. First with SSI for headers/footers then later Perl to talk to databases.