I was 5. My parents bought me a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and since I couldn't afford buying games on cassettes, I started by typing in game source code from magazi

I was 5. My parents bought me a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and since I couldn't afford buying games on cassettes, I started by typing in game source code from magazines and then I quickly started trying to change them at which point I learned programming pretty quickly, since there was a strong incentive behind it.