How is it possible to be a developer when a kid is 6 years old?

Re:How is it possible to be a developer when a kid is 6 year... by achairapart on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @10:36AM (#17237982)

I started playing with Commodore 64 Basic at 6 or 7. Nothing fancy, just some "10 INPUT A, 20 PRINT A".

I used my father as a beta tester, he was impressed.

Then I switched to GWBasic on an 8086. Spent endless hours randomly messing with other programs source code.

By the time I was 11 or 12 I wrote my first fully functional program. And it was compiled into an executable file with Turbo Basic!

By then, I saw myself as a fully qualified developer.

Ah, memories :) I

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Re:How is it possible to be a developer when a kid is 6 year... by GFischer on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:00AM (#17247674)

I can definitely remember writing some crappy GWBasic "programs" when I was 7 or 8 - basically PRINT and GOTOs, and they even had some logic! I was very, very bored (no TV for instance) and I only had the GWBASIC manual and access to an 8088.

And my stepfather helped me write a calculator program in C when I was 10 or so (but I didn't really understand C).

I wouldn't call that a "developer" by any stretch of the imagination, I guess Nat was exaggerating.

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