Congratulations to Stephen, who codes for us here at cre8d design, for advancing to the final round of Google’s Code Jam programming competition! He came 8th in the Asia/Pacific round and will next compete in California in November.
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Props to Cam, a friend of mine, who’s going to be blogging about learning Ruby (on Rails). He’s 14 and this will be his first programming language, although he has been designing websites for a while now. Tonight, he said to me: “I think I have web standards pretty much sorted” but now he wants to start creating online applications. Cam writes:
In this blog I hope to document my progress on learning the language and get/give some help on learning this. Hope you enjoy reading. Cam.
*currently downloading ruby on my 56k Modem
If you’re a programmer, do you remember when you first picked up a language? If you have a moment, stop by Cam’s new blog and give him some encouragement… even it’s it just to persevere with the downloading 
While I’m reminscing about beginning to programme, I remember getting magazines from the UK with long BASIC code programmes at the back which I’d painstakingly type in line by line. I was probably about 8 years old. When I ran it I remember getting some sort of error message but sadly it gave me no clue as to where the typo was. I still persevered though. Just to see that tiny little baton whacking a couple of dots (ooh, look, it’s a ball!) around on the screen was worth the wait.
I also remember programming an address book for my family in some sort of database on a Commodore 64 when I was 12. And I remember programming a little turtle thing when I was 10? Must google that.
What are your first memories of programming?
