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I remember, at age 8 or 9, being so proud of myself for having developed an app that played a couple of complete songs using SOUND in tandy basic on our first PC (an 8088 w/ a whopping huge 10MB hard drive).

My father (an amateur singer), used the "Wind beneath My Wings" version for to warm up before practice.



Me: PLAY "l16ecececececececececececececececececececececececec"

My dad: * runs out to answer the "telephone" *

Me: * trollface


When I was 10 I started reading a VB book and was inordinately proud of myself for learning how to customize the toolbars in the IDE. I just assumed that that was a major part of programming. I also misunderstood the part on autocompletion and thought it meant most of your code was autogenerated.

I wasn't the most tech-literate child, but at least I've come a decent way since then.


Damn I feel old. I was using GW-BASIC when I was 8 :-(




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