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One of my earliest memories is of a TRS-80. I was 4 years old when I saw my first computer program. My brother (10) showed me a program he wrote a that would p
by DrBoring 5y ago
One of my earliest memories is of a TRS-80. I was 4 years old when I saw my first computer program. My brother (10) showed me a program he wrote a that would print a pattern of Xs on the screen.
It blew my mind that he was able to tell the computer what to do.
I can't remember anything about the computer before that memory, but I must have assumed the software was just magically there, not that humans had put it there. Not that a regular person like me could write my own programs.
That event made a big impression on me. When I was 7 I started teaching myself BASIC coding on our Atari 800 using a book I found on the family book shelf.