At the time I wrote my first programs I was about 10 years old and I wrote them on an IBM x8680 that an acquaintance donated to us because he'd have thrown the

At the time I wrote my first programs I was about 10 years old and I wrote them on an IBM x8680 that an acquaintance donated to us because he'd have thrown the machine away otherwise. I didn't receive any tutoring in programming until to the age of 22. Back then there was no internet and tutoring in IT was unthinkable in schools. Barely anybody had a computer in the first place, something which just a short while after changed quickly.