When I was 13, I was stumbling around in my mom's garage and found a copy of Ivor Horton's "Beginning Visual C++ 6". I still refer to this moment as the reason

When I was 13, I was stumbling around in my mom's garage and found a copy of Ivor Horton's "Beginning Visual C++ 6". I still refer to this moment as the reason I became a programmer. Like the author, I tried to read the book for a month and got so confused that I knew that this is what I wanted to do for my life. So, of course, I put the book down, waited 5 years, and went to college. I can't imagine what my life would have been like if I had been given an ORIC-1, or had any accessible way of getting into programming at that age.