freelance84 Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 How long have people been writing code (anything from html to js to php) for? Personally I'm around the 14month mark. I'm guessing some of the people on here have been doing this for quite some time based on their lightning quick responses to complex questions asked... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gristoi Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 HTML / javascript ans css for about 12 years. PHP for 7 years, Object oriented php for about 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1230435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Front end work, right at 10 years now (holy cow where did the time go!) PHP - roughly 7-8 years Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1230462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xylex Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 16 years now for web-related coding for me. I even have the documentation to back that - http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/06/us/on-the-internet-the-unabomber-is-a-star.html And started working with PHP when it was PHP/FI, so about 13 years there. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1230511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 PHP - from since I joined here ~3 years (August '08). Java - a little in HS, more in college, now professionally for about 3 years. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1230522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cs.punk Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 PHP - from since I joined here ~3 years (August '08). Java - a little in HS, more in college, now professionally for about 3 years. That's interesting, what sorta applications do you maintain/create with java? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1230655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Java - a little in HS, more in college, now professionally for about 3 years. Gross Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1230659 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xylex Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Java - a little in HS, more in college, now professionally for about 3 years. That's how you had time for your 9200 posts. You needed something to do while things were compiling Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1230664 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Java - a little in HS, more in college, now professionally for about 3 years. Gross Yeah, HS sucked. That's how you had time for your 9200 posts. You needed something to do while things were compiling Something like that but come on, it's not that bad. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1230700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fugix Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Java - a little in HS, more in college, now professionally for about 3 years. That's how you had time for your 9200 posts. You needed something to do while things were compiling haha, classic Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1230706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 html/css: ~11 years PHP: ~6 years Everything else: < 6 years Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1231216 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 HTML/CSS/JavaScript - 8 years (rusty with them, however) PHP - 5 years C#/ASP.NET MVC - 1.5 years Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1231236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesta707 Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 HTML/CSS for about for about 8 years now. PHP/Javascript for about 6. Other languages (Java/C++/Python/etc..) learned in late HS early college so about 3-4 years (varies for each one). Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1231329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 HTML/CSS - I started making sites around 1998 - 1999. Iv'e never been much of a designer though. ASP (VBScript) - Worked with between 1999 - 2002. Python - I switched from Windows to Linux and Python looked interesting. 2002 PHP - Getting back into web development. 2004 There are of course other languages which I've used. Bash I use on a daily basis and have done since I started using Linux, and I've played with my fair share of Perl. I've been using PHP for a long while now and really am starting to look for alternatives (even though I'm employed mostly as a PHP developer). I'm not really that interested in web development either these days, which is OK, we don't make web sites (as such) where I work. I'm thinking Ruby is looking like a prime candidate for good use. Been playing around with it for probably the last 12 months, and in the last few months looking at Rails. Node.js is also pretty interesting. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1231334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 PHP 6 years and I'm currently getting my feet wet with Python, Lisp, and Perl or PLP as I call it. I never deviate much from my roots Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1231375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sKunKbad Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 I started with Frontpage for our family business, about 8 years ago. (Early 2003) I switched to Adobe GoLive after about a year of Frontpage usage. I realized that WYSIWYG wasn't the way to go, and started hand coding HTML/CSS about 6 years ago. Started in with php a little over 5 years ago. (About the time I started coming to this forum) I've stumbled through many other languages/technologies, and am pretty comfortable with javascript. About two years ago was introduced to the Kohana and CodeIgniter php frameworks, and now exclusively build websites with CodeIgniter. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1231773 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Back in High School I wrote my first machine-language program on one of these: http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cdc160/photo/ Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1232028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Started with HTML/CSS about 6, maybe 7 years ago. Started with PHP & MySQL about a year after, and then JS about another year after that. Been working with Java (for Android development) for around 6 months - although I'm struggling to find the time to do anything of note with it. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1232113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Oh.. and SQL server & Oracle (PL/SQL) for almost 3 years. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1232118 Share on other sites More sharing options...
salathe Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Around 15 years, give or take -- the early years are a little fuzzy. The amount of coding has gradually increased with time, now it occupies my working life and a significant portion outside of that. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/239534-how-long-have-you-been-writing-code-for/#findComment-1232188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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