Average age survey.

[DrewPee]

Well I am 37 and still going strong! lol!
Seriously though folks I am doing more programming now than ever!

Drew

[slinks]

I think the lack of under 15's really shows that our hobby is aging, I mean just a few years ago there were quite of few of us, but now we've grown up and no-one's taken our place. That's sad.

[Pixel_Outlaw]

I think the lack of under 15's really shows that our hobby is aging, I mean just a few years ago there were quite of few of us, but now we've grown up and no-one's taken our place. That's sad.

On the flip side it does mean a more mature atmosphere here. You don't see "STFU n00B!1" every three seconds. Or people insisting that they are professional programmers at age 15 after three drag and drop designed Game Maker programs. I'm not disrespecting Game Maker just the uninformed user. I'll admit I use Blitzmax but only because I know it is powerful enough and extendable enough to get most jobs done. It is funny to see people looking at a C++ compiler for the first time when moving from Game Maker. "Uhhh this looks like notepad","Where do I click to add a blank object?". I was the same way, actually Blitzmax stopped my learning of C++ just after I learned to make "Cat" and "Pen" classes with "meow" output and different colored ink respectively.

[slinks]

On the flip side it does mean a more mature atmosphere here. You don't see "STFU n00B!1" every three seconds.

True, but concidering the average IQ and patience levels required to get to grips with programming, you wouldn't see too much of this anyway, thank god.

 

Or people insisting that they are professional programmers at age 15 after three drag and drop designed Game Maker programs.

Heh, I remember those guys, they were funny. To be perfectly honest, game maker really seems like the easy way out. It may allow you to focus more on the images and sound, but it offers much less control and less of a personal touch that so many programs are missing now days.

[rain_storm]

This is actually very reminiscent of the comic book culture of the nineties. you see in the early nineties there was a surge in interest in the comic book scene and I was one of those people. many of us just grew out of it after about 15 years old but later on things changed some of the older guys came back to the comic books and almost no teenagers were getting into it. I dont know what the situation is now but there was a definate gap there between the ages of 15 and 30. Comics are still going but the scene is now geared towards two markets spiderman and daredevil are targeting really young children whilst preacher and the like are definately adult orientated. I suspect that in a few years many of the guys that have left the demoscene will return and produce more demos than they ever did before

[Shockwave]

The saddest thing of all Rain is that there are no people aged below 15. This means that young people are probably just not interested in learning to make demos.

Very interesting comparison with the comic scene by the way Rain Storm.

[gooner]

Better post this before i hit the big 40.
I am 39 and just starting out on the coding journey determined to make up for lost time.
Just browsing the forums for the last couple of months got me into it .
So your never too old to start.

[Clyde]

I'll be 34 this August. Where does the time go, feels like only yesterday I was playing and watching stuff on a Commodore 64.

[mentor]

24 and I feel old :/

[Architect_414]

The saddest thing of all Rain is that there are no people aged below 15. This means that young people are probably just not interested in learning to make demos.

Very interesting comparison with the comic scene by the way Rain Storm.

Well shocky, when i joined here i was half way through my 14th year, now im 15.
I found out about demo's when i was about 13, and decided to start coding at 14.

Sorry for ressurecting an old topic, i just thought i'd say this!

[Shockwave]

It's ok, it's an interesting topic

Maybe people who hadnt voted before will vote now but there is still a huge lump of people in their 30's

[hellfire]

Sorry for ressurecting an old topic

...meanwhile I dropped into the next category

[StatMat]

I missed this one myself. Anyway, I'm 32, so no surprises there! :p

I also think it's a shame that a lot of younger guys are not getting as interested as we all have. IMHO, modern gaming consoles have a big part to play in this, which don't allow for programming "out of the box" as our old home computers did. It would be wrong to say that those younger guys not interested in what we do are less creative these days though. A lot of them play around making videos and such for You-tube and producing mods for games for example. I guess the creative focus has just shifted elsewhere. However, there's still plenty of life in the demoscene, as many of us still love it, regardless of our age.

[Pixel_Outlaw]

I also have moved one category.

[Shockwave]

Why does everyone have to move up a category..

Life is so short, it's not fair.. I'll never understand BSP trees properly Not enough time to learn!

[Praecor]

25.

26 on christmas. + Still cutting my hair with BSP splitplanes<3 (Oh wait too long hair, precalcing takes ages,
this is not gonna work)

I wrote code first time with my aquarius in 1987 I guess or so, before I had the wonderous commodore 64.

I remember C64 programmers manual was a gift from the heaven back then, so sweet memories.

I'm so very very happy they let me live in the eighties to witness how it all began with the computers, because
that's something money can't buy.

It is pretty sad to see the new people who had not this chance
will never know how it really was. (I mean seriously We loved playing "pong" in front of the tv all day long,
it beated all games they do today, by a mile! Especially in sound effects. And back then it wasn't nothing like "retro"!)

But one thing is sure! I'm never gonna stop coding in my damn life. They can perhaps try to erase my memory, but I won't forget.

No matter what happens or how automated machines get to generate code for us or how many libraries
they throw at us to make stuff for us, I won't stop!

for (;i-->0;) printf ("Never");

Damn it if doc says me I have only 2 months left, well it is 2 months enough
to code a demo for my own funerals.

[Shockwave]

What Praecor said.

Amen to that and K+ You said what I thought but couldn't put into words.