Unscientific Nerdchild Survey

[snarp]

If you learned a programming/scripting language at age 13 or younger:

1) Did you start trying to code before or after you started algebra in school?

2) Which seemed easier for you?

Comments

I never fully learned a language, but I can do things?

[untonuggan]

1) shortly before -- I think a couple years (though I was technically ahead in math, so it might have been a two for me instead of three for classmates). It was early computers though, so we learned things like "How to use command line to tell a choose your own adventure story." I didn't learn the full language, just enough to write a lot of those independently....Once I had already taken algebra, I learned enough html to make really ugly websites and also post links and photos in LJ.
2) Ummmm...I feel like I was annoyingly "gifted" in school and they were probably equally easy? I didn't do any coding that actually required much math though. It was around the time I skipped a grade and was dealing with a lot of bullying? So I kind of threw myself into a lot of school-related things, and also theater.

Not sure if that's helpful, but there you go.