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    When did you peoples started learning QT ?

    I started Qt when I was 20-21, it was with Qt 3.3.

    Please mention your age when you started programming too.

    I started programming (TI-basic) when I was 16, then I learned C++ when I was 19.

    please add your experience before learning QT.

    Practically nothing, one year of C++, with a 6-months (2 hours a week) project about picture drawing and genetic algorithms.

    Aren't you attracted by other easy frameworks (although they are not in c++)

    I'm primarily a C++ guy, I like Python as well, but that's mostly it. So not really.

    `They did not know it was impossible, so they did it.'
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      @JonB
      What about you ??

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      @Thank-You
      What bout me? My life history? ;-)

      For Qt it looks like I started and joined here in 2016, which is scarily longer ago than I remember! I did Qt to help a friend out on an existing project, using Python/PyQt. Then did my own project to use C++ instead. Only done Qt as a bit of a hobby, not for work.

      Languages went through Pascal, BASIC, C, Prolog, C++, C#. Most work stuff was MSVC/Windows, company is B2B selling development/configuration tools. I do (and like) backend, but do frontend too grudgingly. Lately I got back into Linux, as originally I did my stuff under UNIX. And a host of other things, web stuff, scripting, sys admin. No courses/training, just pick it up as I go.

      Other than that, I have a pussy cat and am an avid England supporter in any sport. I am now reaching an age where I can start to become a "grumpy old man", and looking forward to it. :D

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        @Thank-You
        What bout me? My life history? ;-)

        For Qt it looks like I started and joined here in 2016, which is scarily longer ago than I remember! I did Qt to help a friend out on an existing project, using Python/PyQt. Then did my own project to use C++ instead. Only done Qt as a bit of a hobby, not for work.

        Languages went through Pascal, BASIC, C, Prolog, C++, C#. Most work stuff was MSVC/Windows, company is B2B selling development/configuration tools. I do (and like) backend, but do frontend too grudgingly. Lately I got back into Linux, as originally I did my stuff under UNIX. And a host of other things, web stuff, scripting, sys admin. No courses/training, just pick it up as I go.

        Other than that, I have a pussy cat and am an avid England supporter in any sport. I am now reaching an age where I can start to become a "grumpy old man", and looking forward to it. :D

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        @JonB That's preety good. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

        Let's make QT free or It will go forever

        TRUE AND FALSE <3

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          @JonB That's preety good. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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          I want to know about @jsulm too
          good guy and first person to help me in QT forum

          If mentioning here disturbs you. Sorry man.

          Let's make QT free or It will go forever

          TRUE AND FALSE <3

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            I want to know about @jsulm too
            good guy and first person to help me in QT forum

            If mentioning here disturbs you. Sorry man.

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            @Thank-You said in Since when did you start QT?:

            If mentioning here disturbs you

            No problem.
            I started learning Qt when I was working as student for a big German automotive company. It was an internal PyQt project in the 200x.
            Before that I learned programming mostly by reading books and writing small programs. But, I also want to mention the school (Gymnasium in Germany): we had good teachers for computer sciences! My first ever programming language was Basic, but at that time I had no idea what I was doing, just typing something the teacher told us and see what happens (that's why I usually refuse to "give code" to people here, they should learn and understand what they are doing :-)). 1996 my parents bought me my first PC and I started to learn programming using Turbo Pascal. Bit later Delphi. At some point I wanted to learn C++, because a teacher told us that this is what matters in real world :-) So, I used free version of C++ Builder and read the book from Stroustrup. I also learned x86 assembler at that time because I wanted to learn how CPUs actually work. That was really fun :-) At the university I also learned some Java and a bit Prolog. After study in my first real job I learned C# and some ASP.Net as that was used for an internal company project. Then again some Python, then C++ with Qt. Now, I'm again in automotive industry doing C++, but without Qt (we stopped using Qt some years ago).
            Currently thinking about what new programming language I should learn :-)

            https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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              @Thank-You said in Since when did you start QT?:

              If mentioning here disturbs you

              No problem.
              I started learning Qt when I was working as student for a big German automotive company. It was an internal PyQt project in the 200x.
              Before that I learned programming mostly by reading books and writing small programs. But, I also want to mention the school (Gymnasium in Germany): we had good teachers for computer sciences! My first ever programming language was Basic, but at that time I had no idea what I was doing, just typing something the teacher told us and see what happens (that's why I usually refuse to "give code" to people here, they should learn and understand what they are doing :-)). 1996 my parents bought me my first PC and I started to learn programming using Turbo Pascal. Bit later Delphi. At some point I wanted to learn C++, because a teacher told us that this is what matters in real world :-) So, I used free version of C++ Builder and read the book from Stroustrup. I also learned x86 assembler at that time because I wanted to learn how CPUs actually work. That was really fun :-) At the university I also learned some Java and a bit Prolog. After study in my first real job I learned C# and some ASP.Net as that was used for an internal company project. Then again some Python, then C++ with Qt. Now, I'm again in automotive industry doing C++, but without Qt (we stopped using Qt some years ago).
              Currently thinking about what new programming language I should learn :-)

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              @jsulm said in Since when did you start QT?:

              but without Qt (we stopped using Qt some years ago).

              Oh wow! Yet you are the most active poster in this forum?!

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                @jsulm said in Since when did you start QT?:

                but without Qt (we stopped using Qt some years ago).

                Oh wow! Yet you are the most active poster in this forum?!

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                @JonB Am I? :-)
                I like Qt, you know :-)

                https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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                  @JonB Am I? :-)
                  I like Qt, you know :-)

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                  @jsulm said in Since when did you start QT?:

                  @JonB Am I? :-)

                  No, but you are close: https://forum.qt.io/users?section=sort-posts :D

                  Most active is Sam, and always has been.

                  (Z(:^

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                    @jsulm said in Since when did you start QT?:

                    @JonB Am I? :-)

                    No, but you are close: https://forum.qt.io/users?section=sort-posts :D

                    Most active is Sam, and always has been.

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                    @sierdzio
                    Yes, I felt bad after writing that that it might be Sam overall. Sorry!
                    Scarily I seem to have made a lot of posts, without necessarily knowing what I'm talking about :)
                    Still I was surprised @jsulm says he has stopped using Qt.

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                    • JonBJ JonB

                      @sierdzio
                      Yes, I felt bad after writing that that it might be Sam overall. Sorry!
                      Scarily I seem to have made a lot of posts, without necessarily knowing what I'm talking about :)
                      Still I was surprised @jsulm says he has stopped using Qt.

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                      @JonB said in Since when did you start QT?:

                      @sierdzio
                      Yes, I felt bad after writing that that it might be Sam overall. Sorry!

                      I'm not offended at all :-)

                      Scarily I seem to have made a lot of posts, without necessarily knowing what I'm talking about :)

                      Don't worry, it's still good contribution. It helps others and it does help you :-)

                      When I was new here I was also answering a lot while knowing little. Somehow, in the meantime and without realizing, that helped me learn a lot, too.

                      (Z(:^

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                        Just wanted to know
                        When did you peoples started learning QT ? Please mention your age when you started programming too. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
                        please add your experience before learning QT.

                        Aren't you attracted by other easy frameworks (although they are not in c++) LIKE
                        FLUTTER , REACT NATIVE , DELPHI , C++ BUILDER (not easy but alternative) , Ionic etc.

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                        @Thank-You said in Since when did you start QT?:

                        When did you peoples started learning QT ?

                        2021

                        Please mention your age when you started programming too. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

                        late 90s

                        please add your experience before learning QT.

                        started with Pascal on Mac. Continued with Ada, C++98 and some SPARC assembler, was forced to write code in JOVIAL for a widely unknown 2-cpu-system.
                        Got frustrated by tons of legacy Solaris Motif-based C/C++ code and moved to the then holy grail Java with Swing.
                        Now frustrated by JavaFX, the memory consumption and JVM deployment mess and the many platform-specific workarounds you now have to use with UI java.

                        Aren't you attracted by other easy frameworks (although they are not in c++) LIKE
                        FLUTTER , REACT NATIVE , DELPHI , C++ BUILDER (not easy but alternative) , Ionic etc.

                        Tried Delphi and C++ Builder but the code for these apps always looked strange to me. Just my personal taste. And oh, I really hate scripting languages…

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                          qt-3.x in the early 2000s.

                          I'm a curmudgeony old fart.

                          been coding since 1980ish (middle-school). started on trash-80 model 1 and DEC minicomputers. learned BASIC, Fortran4, and numerous assemblers (because interpretted BASIC is hideously slow) Used to hack dialup systems with 300baud modem and hazeline adm3a CRT.

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                            Just wanted to know
                            When did you peoples started learning QT ? Please mention your age when you started programming too. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
                            please add your experience before learning QT.

                            Aren't you attracted by other easy frameworks (although they are not in c++) LIKE
                            FLUTTER , REACT NATIVE , DELPHI , C++ BUILDER (not easy but alternative) , Ionic etc.

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                            @Thank-You said in Since when did you start QT?:

                            When did you peoples started learning QT ? Please mention your age when you started programming too. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
                            please add your experience before learning QT.

                            In primary school and high school, I wrote simple scripts for games and small apps for my Casio graphics calculator.

                            I learnt formal programming when I was 21 (with an introductory course in C programming) and realized that I liked software engineering more than electrical engineering (which I was studying in university). Later that same year, I tried to learn other programming tools online (Java, SDL, GTK...) but didn't like any of them. I finally found Qt 4 and loved it immediately.

                            Aren't you attracted by other easy frameworks (although they are not in c++) LIKE
                            FLUTTER , REACT NATIVE , DELPHI , C++ BUILDER (not easy but alternative) , Ionic etc.

                            I also learnt assembly and MATLAB as part of electrical engineering, but I don't use them anymore.

                            I mainly use Qt (C++ and QML) for my hobby projects, and LabVIEW for my day job (I wrote a comparison at https://forum.qt.io/topic/90276/showdown-qt-vs-labview/ ). I sometimes use Python and JavaScript + CSS + HTML.

                            All of these tools meet my current needs. I can easily integrate other C/C++ libraries into my Qt apps if necessary, and Python has a huge library selection. If someone shows me a compelling reason to try out one of the new tools/frameworks, I might tinker with it in my spare time. But right now, I have everything I need. New tools come and go regularly, so I don't try to learn them all.

                            Qt Doc Search for browsers: forum.qt.io/topic/35616/web-browser-extension-for-improved-doc-searches

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                              @koahnig said in Since when did you start QT?:

                              FORTRAN IV / 77, C, C++, assembler, do not remeber all

                              Brilliant! Somebody clearly older than me! ;-) Especially when they talk about "not remembering".....

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                              @JonB said in Since when did you start QT?:

                              @koahnig said in Since when did you start QT?:

                              FORTRAN IV / 77, C, C++, assembler, do not remeber all

                              Brilliant! Somebody clearly older than me! ;-) Especially when they talk about "not remembering".....

                              I did not add yet that FORTRAN IV was my only formal programming course and we had to use punching cards for coding. This was begin 1980ies. No computer science at gymnasium (high school) during that time available at all.
                              IBM mainframe TSO was already a privilege for students to use, because somehow you needed to organize some user account which was not available for students.

                              The not remembering part was Commodore PET basic and its machine language (basically typying hex code into the machine). So you had to be your own assembler. Mass storage was a compact tape recorder.

                              Actually I started out with C, because the MS compilers were accompanied by an editor which was extendable with C. Also there was an option to combine FORTRAN with C on DOS machines, which did not work at all. Eventually I bit into the sour apple and switched completely to C.

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                                I started using Creator (purely for editing and building non UI applications) about 11 years ago. It was the best IDE I could find.

                                Started actually using Qt's libraries about 4 years ago; QML about 6 months ago.

                                Where does the time go...

                                As far as being attracted to other IDEs...

                                ...no.

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                                  I spent early years , after finishing my university study defending my thesis "Design of private telephone network " , getting my paycheck by "designing " ( by Bell System Practices ) " 750KW jet propelled" emergency backup generator setup.
                                  My first real computer job was to write a multistage long distance telephone network test software - in assembly - in 1973.
                                  I had 8 bit "mini computer " with 4 kb - that is kilobytes - magnetic core memory card to fit my program into!
                                  Then couple years of traveling , installing and "make it work" small business telephone switches. Next came "putting into service " Intel 8080 based one one the first telephone machines. Did not do any coding but lots of "manual patches" - again in assembly.
                                  Then came "basic", "Visual Basic" "BORLAND c++ "....
                                  My first "windoze" based commercial application was a flop. A small consulting company folded soon after the money made after very successfully designed and helped sell one of the first "treadmill" machines - with fancy LED display by your truly- including PCB layout . Way before "outorouter" software was invented.
                                  So my money making years are done and nowadays I punish myself writing C++ code - a dubious hobby - allegedly for fun.

                                  I went from Eclipse to Qt about 2 years ago , mainly for ease of GUI and
                                  "real time" event processing .

                                  I did dabble in MFC and must say Qt could do better , but I do not want to end this on sour note.

                                  BTW
                                  I still believe one should have "dream application in head " before picking up / choosing any learning tool / software language - u tube excluded.

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                                    I spent early years , after finishing my university study defending my thesis "Design of private telephone network " , getting my paycheck by "designing " ( by Bell System Practices ) " 750KW jet propelled" emergency backup generator setup.
                                    My first real computer job was to write a multistage long distance telephone network test software - in assembly - in 1973.
                                    I had 8 bit "mini computer " with 4 kb - that is kilobytes - magnetic core memory card to fit my program into!
                                    Then couple years of traveling , installing and "make it work" small business telephone switches. Next came "putting into service " Intel 8080 based one one the first telephone machines. Did not do any coding but lots of "manual patches" - again in assembly.
                                    Then came "basic", "Visual Basic" "BORLAND c++ "....
                                    My first "windoze" based commercial application was a flop. A small consulting company folded soon after the money made after very successfully designed and helped sell one of the first "treadmill" machines - with fancy LED display by your truly- including PCB layout . Way before "outorouter" software was invented.
                                    So my money making years are done and nowadays I punish myself writing C++ code - a dubious hobby - allegedly for fun.

                                    I went from Eclipse to Qt about 2 years ago , mainly for ease of GUI and
                                    "real time" event processing .

                                    I did dabble in MFC and must say Qt could do better , but I do not want to end this on sour note.

                                    BTW
                                    I still believe one should have "dream application in head " before picking up / choosing any learning tool / software language - u tube excluded.

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                                    Ohhh! man Everyone are very old here πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚(don't be offended guys)
                                    Because I hadn't met peoples who really coded in assembly as commercials and most of you have FORTRAN. Oh! This seems old for me too.
                                    I feel I haven't learned much. There is long way to go πŸ˜‰πŸ˜‰πŸ˜‰πŸ˜Š

                                    Pascal , , assembler(like 1 course)
                                    FORTRAN IV / 77, C, C++, assembler, do not remeber all
                                    BASIC
                                    x86 assembler at that time because I wanted to learn how CPUs actually work.
                                    late 90s
                                    Continued with Ada, C++98 and some SPARC assembler,
                                    started on trash-80 model 1 and DEC minicomputers. learned BASIC, Fortran4, and numerous assemblers
                                    Casio graphics calculator.
                                    IBM mainframe
                                    Bell System Practices ) 750k Jet propelled

                                    Wooooow! Sooo much exciting. Not even heard about some of the things here
                                    Really So much interesting. You are the guys who made programming this easier for us

                                    Let's make QT free or It will go forever

                                    TRUE AND FALSE <3

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                                      Ohhh! man Everyone are very old here πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚(don't be offended guys)
                                      Because I hadn't met peoples who really coded in assembly as commercials and most of you have FORTRAN. Oh! This seems old for me too.
                                      I feel I haven't learned much. There is long way to go πŸ˜‰πŸ˜‰πŸ˜‰πŸ˜Š

                                      Pascal , , assembler(like 1 course)
                                      FORTRAN IV / 77, C, C++, assembler, do not remeber all
                                      BASIC
                                      x86 assembler at that time because I wanted to learn how CPUs actually work.
                                      late 90s
                                      Continued with Ada, C++98 and some SPARC assembler,
                                      started on trash-80 model 1 and DEC minicomputers. learned BASIC, Fortran4, and numerous assemblers
                                      Casio graphics calculator.
                                      IBM mainframe
                                      Bell System Practices ) 750k Jet propelled

                                      Wooooow! Sooo much exciting. Not even heard about some of the things here
                                      Really So much interesting. You are the guys who made programming this easier for us

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                                      @Thank-You
                                      I'm not sure you'd benefit much nowadays from picking up on some of the things we say we have used. IBM mainframes are going out of fashion, and there's no longer much demand for programming, say, a pocket calculator.
                                      :D

                                      What you might learn from some of us oldies, however, is that it is quite usual to get more grumpy/irritable as you age....

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                                        @Thank-You
                                        I'm not sure you'd benefit much nowadays from picking up on some of the things we say we have used. IBM mainframes are going out of fashion, and there's no longer much demand for programming, say, a pocket calculator.
                                        :D

                                        What you might learn from some of us oldies, however, is that it is quite usual to get more grumpy/irritable as you age....

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                                        @JonB said in Since when did you start QT?:

                                        What you might learn from some of us oldies, however, is that it is quite usual to get more grumpy/irritable as you age....

                                        ;) :D rofl

                                        Is there already a blog called "The grumpy programmer"?
                                        If not, maybe we should start it.

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                                          @JonB said in Since when did you start QT?:

                                          What you might learn from some of us oldies, however, is that it is quite usual to get more grumpy/irritable as you age....

                                          ;) :D rofl

                                          Is there already a blog called "The grumpy programmer"?
                                          If not, maybe we should start it.

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                                          Is there already a blog called "The grumpy programmer"?
                                          If not, maybe we should start it.

                                          It would never work...the mods would delete every post for being too annoying...

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