I started programming because I was bored in school at 13 yo and using a TI 83 was accepted in almost all classes. I coded a dichotomic number guesser, Collatz

I started programming because I was bored in school at 13 yo and using a TI 83 was accepted in almost all classes. I coded a dichotomic number guesser, Collatz path grapher, unbeatable tic tac toe, minesweeper with recursive finding of surrounding blank cells, IFS (iterated function system) grapher generated from random points (to draw fractals), a Connect Four etc. All this with a 6 lines screen and a huge amount of noise around me constantly. When I got home, I would link the TI on my computer and install a copycat of Pokemon Blue/Red for GameBoy that someone coded in assembly and realize how awesome some others people were, and I had still so much to learn