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I was three years old when I "discovered" mspaint. I apparently taught myself English by looking at the operating system dialogues. And in the next couple of ye
by therein 5y ago
I was three years old when I "discovered" mspaint. I apparently taught myself English by looking at the operating system dialogues. And in the next couple of years came across some Visual Basic code and managed to set up Visual Studio after grabbing a pirated copy. Used that for years and never upgraded because couldn't get anything else to work.
I don't know how I jumped the gap between reading text and writing code.
I have very distinct memories from an early age of trying having to need to compare two numbers, no problem. And then comparing three, no problem. Comparing four, no problem either. Soon realizing one can compare any number of numbers but there was an issue comparing (and ultimately sorting) an arbitrary number of numbers. Which lead me to come up with my own silly bubblesort. During that time I remember pondering about concepts like code generation using code etc.
Just sharing some memories I can remember. My point is, probably never too early to introduce your children to computing. As long as they have an intellectual attitude towards it.