{"id":246139,"date":"2018-01-28T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T11:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=246139"},"modified":"2018-01-28T13:06:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T11:06:32","slug":"when-programmers-start-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/246139-when-programmers-start-coding.html","title":{"rendered":"When programmers start coding"},"content":{"rendered":"

HackerRank recently published the results its 2018 Developer Skills Report<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0which looked at when programmers started coding.<\/p>\n

39,441 professional and student developers completed the online survey from 16 October to 1 November, with 25% of the developers having written their first piece of code before 16 years old.<\/p>\n

49.6% started coding between 16-20, while 5.2% started coding after they turned 26.<\/p>\n

The report added that 36% of the developers who started coding after 26 are now senior or high-level developers – and growing quickly in their careers.<\/p>\n

When did you start coding<\/h3>\n

\"HackerRank<\/a><\/p>\n

Current age<\/h3>\n

The report stated that the PC revolution several decades back sparked a unique ambition in children of the 1970s to get into the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike generations thereafter, if kids of the seventies wanted to see innovative technology, they\u2019d have to build it themselves,\u201d said HackerRank.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were no widespread resources to teach them how to build software. Almost half of all developers (47%) between the ages of 45 and 54 started coding before they were 16 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n

This group was among the first to get their hands on PCs like the Acorn Archimedes, TRS\u201380, Commodore 64, and Apple II.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith limited to no access to formal education, young people in the PC revolution had an unusually strong drive to learn to code on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n

By comparison, developers between 18 and 24 today are the least likely to have started coding before 16.<\/p>\n

\"HackerRank<\/a><\/p>\n

Now read: How WeThinkCode\u2019s free programming course works<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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