Rafael Pérez 🌱Sep 20, 2025

I'm a computer programmer with a Fediverse account, and I am this many years old.

Please consider boosting for a more representative sample.

#programming #poll #demographics #fediverse #age

10-20 years old.
3.3%
21-30.
18.9%
31-40.
27.9%
41 or older.
49.9%
Poll ended at .
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@rperezrosario

Why include 10 yr olds?

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@PChoate

Kids these days....
https://thenewstack.io/meet-the-11-year-old-whose-code-was-adopted-by-a-gaming-giant/

Meet the 11-Year-Old Whose Code Was Adopted by a Gaming Giant

Damir Buldakov is an 11-year-old who developed a Scratch SDK plugin for Playgama that was officially adopted by the gaming giant.

The New Stack
Sep 21, 2025 at 5:59amMastodon for Android
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@rperezrosario @PChoate
I was 13 when I started learning programming, in high school, which wasn't recently either
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@SmartmanApps @rperezrosario

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