Boring puzzles? The very original article showed what kind of programs the kid made. Far from boring puzzle. When I was 8-9 I started with QBasic with the firs

Boring puzzles? The very original article showed what kind of programs the kid made. Far from boring puzzle. When I was 8-9 I started with QBasic with the first program being pretty much identical as what the kid in the article did. Then we did text adventures with friends. They were simply awesome back then. Then we moved to graphics as we figured out how to draw lines etc. Animation was beyond us but managing to draw something was brilliant. Around 12 it was C and games by using Allegro, and getting into slight trouble due to the nature of them. But it would not have been possible without first learning the basic stuff in QBasic (Oh the amount of IF blocks was ridiculous in some of the games).