4th grade, way back in the mid-80's. There was a summer school program where they were offering to teach computers to kids on Apple IIe's. I remember it vividly

4th grade, way back in the mid-80's. There was a summer school program where they were offering to teach computers to kids on Apple IIe's. I remember it vividly... I'd wake up, get some cereal, watch some cartoons, then hop on my bike and ride down to the middle-school. There they had several Apple IIe's setup with their green screen monitors and a bunch of us kids. We were taught a little bit of BASIC and got to play with the Lemonade Stand game and then got to modify it. For some reason I just fell in love with that and getting to see my changes show up on the game. The following year, my parents bought a Commodore Plus/4 so my dad could do his masters degree. The Plus/4 was a crappy computer that had very few games (unlike the Commodore 64). So I used my experience with BASIC to write my own games. I learned how to debug and do the whole "trial and error" style programming. Been doing it ever since...