Those in the 18 to 24 age group overwhelmingly started their programming journey in their late teens. 68.2 percent started coding between the ages of 16 to 20.
When you look at older generations, you notice another striking trend: a comparatively larger proportion started programming between the ages of five and ten. 12.2 percent of those aged between 35 and 44 started programming then.
Old fart Gen-Xers started coding as kids instead of late teens.
I’m a bit older than them and started programming later because I had to build my first computer. In those days before you started machine coding you had to learn about CMOS and TTL first.


