I learned to program on my dad's commodore 64 when I was 7 by modifying the source code of nibbles and the game where a gorilla threw bananas. A few years later

I learned to program on my dad's commodore 64 when I was 7 by modifying the source code of nibbles and the game where a gorilla threw bananas. A few years later I was making "AI" chat programs that just used giant 'if' blocks to anticipate every possible word or phrase I could think of and spit out a response. I credit that early naive programming experience for teaching me self-actualization. I could change the world. A tiny insignificant piece of it, but 7-10 year old me felt like a magician.