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How old did you start coding?
By Deaf-Guy-Bad-English, history, 20 months ago, In English

1) When did you start programming?

2) When did you start competitive programming?

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20 months ago, # |
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1) in early 2021

2) in late 2021

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20 months ago, # |
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approximately 13 months

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    20 months ago, # ^ |
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    Considering that you started 1 year ago, your rating is pretty impressive imo. What type of problems did you solve? what kind of routine did you implement to get there?

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      20 months ago, # ^ |
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      Thanks for your compliment. =)))

      I often solve the problems related to greedy, math, sortings, two-pointer, brute-forces, binary search and sometimes simple problems about DSU and graph.

      So here is what i did. Everyday, I try to solve at least 3 problems everyday. I usually choose problems that has tutorial and available codes. I just solve problems and sometimes learn the new type of problems. In my opinion, spending too much time on finding new knowledge will slow me down. Therefore, I just read for new knowledge if the tutorial told me to do so or I was really curious in that. The majority of the time I spend on solving problems with suitable difficulty to me (just around 800~1200 because I still a noob tho :>>).

      Some materials maybe useful to you: Lists of problem sorted by its difficulty: https://vjudge.net/article/2842 Videos of algorithms and data structures (A&DS of pashka): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrS21S1jm43igE57Ye_edwds_iL7ZOAG4

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  1. I began "programming" in Scratch when I was 11 or so. I began real programming (Python, Java) when I was about 13.
  2. I began competitive programming when I was 15.

Now I am 18.

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1）8 2）13

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I started scratch (if this counts as programming) maybe like 5/4 years ago
For competitive programming (which is the first actual programming), I started in mid 2020, but I stopped for like almost a year in 2021, and I came back in late 2021

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    I'd say scratch totally counts as programming language. All the important basic concepts are in there, it is just another (visually more structured and easier to use without previous knowledge) language.

    And I totally recommend scratch or similar concepts to people who want to learn about programming but are intimidated at first. Heck, I did learn programming with the RPGMaker2000 at 13, which is also a click-your-code language.

    In the same manner I would say, that simple English is totally a language. No need to gatekeep here.

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1) On grade 8, Arduino programming lol. 2) A year ago.

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Early 2021 for both questions.

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1) I started "programming" in scratch when i was 6. So it was 6 — 7 years ago (2015 — 2016)
2) I started competitive programming when i was 10 or maybe 9 (2018 — 2020)

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started competitive programming when I was 14

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Scratch/html/css: 6 yrs ago

  1. 5 yrs ago

  2. Early 2020

Now I am 16 :/

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  1. Don't remember
  2. September 2018, I was 13

Now I am 17 :(

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  1. 11
  2. 15

Now I am 16

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  1. 13 years old
  2. 13 years old
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1) 11 years old

2) 16 years old

I'm 17 now )

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12 and 12

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1) in the twenty-first century 2) last decade

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Started programming with Scratch when I was 10 (2018), get second place in the national contest for elementary school students and don't bother learning programming anymore. But 2 months ago, in my 15th birthday, I came back and started competitive programming.

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The feeling when you started programming at the time when a lot of people in the thread weren't even born and you're blue

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When I was in kindergarten.

Marinush

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1 year ago! (◕‿◕) I Was 13 and now I am 14 years old ❤❤

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1) bogus

2) amogus

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1) I start programming when I was 20 years old

1) I start competitive programming when I was 26 (last year), just for fun!

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12 years 26 years

now i have successfully become Sparky_Pupil_WCH1226

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1) In 2007 when I was 10, 2) I took part in my first programming contest in 2008.

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1) 6 years ago when I was 15,
2) 1 year ago when I was 20

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1) 13 2) 14

I guess I had learned scratch before but I don't really count that because I didn't really do anything much with it.

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When I was a zygote I started coding. . . . . . . . . coding genes that would create me

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1) I started programming in late 2017, when dad showed me python.
2) I started in Polish Junior Olympiad in Informatics in late 2019, when I was almost 10 years old.
Now I am 12.

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  1. 3 years ago
  2. 2 years ago

Now I'm 17

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1) First interaction with programming was when I was about 11 — using MapleStory hacks (blindly copying some assembly and injecting it via CheatEngine), playing with packet capturing hacks for MapleStory and having my father write me a pin cracker in AutoIt3 so I could steal people's accounts (I was a mean kid)

2) Competitive programming at 13

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1) ~3 years ago (12 yr) 2) ~3 months ago (15 yr)

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  1. around 6 years ago
  2. less than 1 year ago
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Started programming 3 years ago (grade 9) and started competitive programming 2 years ago.

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1) 2016 Fall

2) 2016 Fall

I'm 16 now

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