I learned to code when I was about 7, in BASIC on a TRS-80 Model 100 laptop. I used to lug it around along with the manual and try different things while my mom

I learned to code when I was about 7, in BASIC on a TRS-80 Model 100 laptop. I used to lug it around along with the manual and try different things while my mom was shopping for groceries. It was like my permanent accessory. I remember when I finally grokked how to use arrays to turn on and off certain ranges of pixels... it was amazing.