I first programmed a calculator (well, copy-keyed a hangman game program into a calculator) back in 1980. Passed my 'O' level computing exam in 1983. Started bu

I first programmed a calculator (well, copy-keyed a hangman game program into a calculator) back in 1980. Passed my 'O' level computing exam in 1983. Started building websites in the last years of the 20th century. Looking back, none of that feels like "programming" to me. I finally started programming when I had a mind-blowing "A-HA!" moment about what Object Oriented programming was all about in 2009 - which made a change from the many, many "wtf" moments I had with non-Basic-like languages before then.