Rafael Pérez 🌱I'm a computer programmer with a Fediverse account, and I am this many years old.
Please consider boosting for a more representative sample.
10-20 years old.
21-30.
31-40.
41 or older.
Poll ended at .
N.b., https://ciberlandia.pt/@marado has augmented this poll with further options for those of us who are 41 or older.
You can augment your vote here.
https://ciberlandia.pt/@marado/115237272830171798
I'll include his poll's result as part of my summary once the polls end.
marado (@[email protected])
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zbrown@rperezrosario wait what, we're supposed to put our age not guess yours?
CartyBoston@CartyBoston Welcome to the 41+ club :-).
Bonkers@rperezrosario @CartyBoston yeah, I'm over 50 and I must say, my life changed a lot in the past 10 years, so it's a completely different category.
As a senior engineer, I can take on most exciting projects, leaving the routine and boring stuff to the younger folks. I enjoy teaching and sharing the knowledge, and I've got much more of that than in my 40's. Also, as I earn more, I have more time for exploring the things that I just like to explore (for example, DIY electronics for the disabled, as we have sadly a huge number of injured people in Ukraine).
jack@CartyBoston @rperezrosario that's 41 or older then
Chris [list of emoji]
marado41-50
51-60
61-70
71-80
81+
Poll ended at .
Leszek Ciesielski@marado @suetanvil @rperezrosario Is that simply the bracket for "I remember the world from before home internet was a thing, and programming was something you needed books to do"?
PC@rperezrosario @suetanvil @marado @skolima
Learned mainframe coding on a VT100 the hard way. I had a couple manuals, a green screen, a couple phone numbers I could call. 1987. They still had filing cabinets full of punch cards. Stacks of tapes in the corner no one could read. Fun times.
When I retired in 2020 I had a wall of books about programming environments, stats, and math. Nobody wanted ANY of them.
MinaThis is definitely more representative of the Fediverse demographics.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@mina @marado @suetanvil @rperezrosario
also if you were to expand the survey to those who aren't techies you will find the demographics skew even older (there's a lot of people in their 70s and above who joined Fedi over the last few years, particularly progressive-minded older folk from the USA and UK)
Melroy van den Berg@marado @suetanvil @rperezrosario what about younger than 10 years? I don't think it's wise.. But who knows?
@melroy @suetanvil @rperezrosario
I wanted to vote but am...
9 years old
8 years old
7 years old
6 years old
5 or less years old 🍼
Poll ended at .
Friedrich Delgado ✔️🎀@marado @suetanvil @rperezrosario So who are the 4.57 81+? ;) We want to hear stories from the old times :-D
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sunflowerinrain@rperezrosario
I suspect many of my feditribe can't even remember being 41.
I suspect many of my feditribe can't even remember being 41.
penguin42@rperezrosario Sheesh, it cuts off at 41....
marado (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] I Voted 41+ and am [ ] 41-50 [ ] 51-60 [ ] 61-70 [ ] 71-80 [ ] 81+
LovesTha🥧@penguin42 @rperezrosario last age poll on mastodon I participated in had most people reply with 45+
@penguin42 @rperezrosario So apparently cyclist skew older than programmers.
@LovesTha @penguin42 That seems to be the way things are.
💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@rperezrosario @LovesTha @penguin42
We're old and wise enough to not flock to another billionaire-owned platform, unlike perhaps the whipper-snappers 😂
We're old and wise enough to not flock to another billionaire-owned platform, unlike perhaps the whipper-snappers 😂
staringatclouds@rperezrosario Retired, but it still counts
Sarah Sammis@pussreboots Welcome to the 41+ crowd. :-)
Why include 10 yr olds?
Kernel Bob 
@PChoate @rperezrosario Why exclude 9-year-olds? At lest we centenarians have a bucket, albeit a bucket we share with our grandchildren.
Sorry, it’s my stupid math brain. Those brackets form a series of numbers except for the 10 should be an 11. I used to write a lot of reports that included age brackets.
11-20 21-30 31-40 41+
The 10-year-olds don’t fit the pattern.
I thought the original poster might’ve had a reason that 10-year-olds are in there - something like “that’s when kids start coding now, in the fourth grade”.
@rperezrosario @PChoate
I was 13 when I started learning programming, in high school, which wasn't recently either
I was 13 when I started learning programming, in high school, which wasn't recently either
Around thirteen I was taught to use a slide rule. ;) Got a four function calculator in 7th grade! Later on a TI-59 I played line-command Lunar Lander as a teen.
When they came out I got a Commodore64 and taught myself basic and started modifying Snake and Gorilla. lol
mirabilos@rperezrosario @PChoate because they damn wel qualify?
I learnt programming before I was ten, and I know two kids who acquired an LPI certification at ten.
Good for you.
Sorry about that, I didn’t mean to imply 10 year olds couldn’t program.
Frankly, I think the lowest category should be 1-10, and the categories should extend up to the age 100.
But I don’t think Mastodon polls allow more than four categories or something unless you play games with it.
I just like symmetry.
@PChoate @rperezrosario other Fediverse softwares can do more ;) but need to catch a train
sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞This proves what Ive always said, we really are bunch of old farts...
四@sleepy62 @rperezrosario Hell I’m also grumpy as well:)
Mark Harris@sleepy62 @rperezrosario It's more that old farts have had the experience to realise where value lies.
Marty Fouts@rperezrosario The first time I was paid to program was longer ago than that. I was hired to write Fortran in 1973.
@MartyFouts My first paid job in computing saw me hired to write HTML and Perl for my local ISP in 1995. I was born two years after your Fortran adventure in 1973.
nobody@rperezrosario can former programmers respond?
@Rajiv Of course.
@rperezrosario welp... we might need one more option on there then :D
Pau Amma@rperezrosario @Rajiv Another former one here - or semi-former anyway as I still write code now and then.
Ψ*Ψ@rperezrosario included myself because I do write a good bit of code, mostly for mask layout, modeling, and data analysis, though I am not a software developer
@psistarpsiii It's all good.
sodiboo 
@rperezrosario you are missing the <10 option. there are some computer programmers at that age, and the fediverse doesn't have an inherent minimum age requirement, so such users could feasibly exist.
Kestral@rperezrosario feel like this should have had a few more older categories...
Mattias@rperezrosario i bet you could have had both 61+ and 81+ and still get all populated at least a little
Andi 🕊🇪🇺@rperezrosario Oops, I'm not. Just old! Sorry
Ian K Tindale@rperezrosario I’m absolutely not a computer programmer but you have my sympathies, it must be terrible
Curio@u0421793
Condolecences happily received 
(I actually significantly reduced in recent years and not just because illness that's for sure. 😌)
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Spark Purcell (they/them)@rperezrosario not a dev so didn't vote but i'm 51...
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Thanks for the reality check, didn't expect that, TBH 😅
Thanks for the reality check, didn't expect that, TBH 😅
Enema Cowboy@rperezrosario 41 years of professional experience is approaching too quickly.
Michał Fita@Enema_Cowboy @rperezrosario So you started with puch cards.
Respect.