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Everyone has a great story about writing their first line of code when they were under 15 years old, except for me. I got my first computer at a young age, around 11, thanks to my dad's friend who brought the computer along with some CD-ROMs of Tom and Jerry and GTA Vice City. (By the way, I had to wait ages for the game to load, and I was very happy when it finally did.) I spent my childhood playing games. You guys are lucky to have found someone who encouraged you to learn to code. I didn't have internet at that time

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    early computers were cool. you had to know how they worked to get them to work!

    now computers won't even let you change a setting predictably. people literally have no chance.
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    this just means you had a better childhood than these 15-yo-coders
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    I have no idea how old I was, but my first experience that Really stuck with me IS playing around on Norton Commander trying to look for something interesting to do on my Grandmas work computer she got from school. I Remember finding two games. One was Battlechess that I played all the time for the cool animations and the other was some sort of sideview space shmup that I only ever found once hidden on some directory. I could never find the Game again, and I spent days trying to retrace my steps!
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    I have been lucky that my (dad's) first computer did not run any fancy games unless you coded them (or re-typed code from printed magazines).

    Later, still in the 1980s, even for running commercial (or pirated) games, you needed to type something in the console, like

    LOAD "*",8,1

    RUN
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    @fraktalisman so you spent you childhood in a console, amazing !
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    @jestdotty a lot of abstractions added to computers both software and hardware, it is hard to understand all the stuff !! new generation pretend to know computers, knowing some computer components and how to branch them together to form a new computer is not enough i guess, knowing how things work behind the scene can help if they get problems
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    I wrote my first line of code back when I was eleven. It said “program proba;”, and it was written in Pascal.
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    @kiki my love to programming started when i learned pascal at school, the teacher was good enough to make all the class love programming
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