I started at 7 using QBasic. I mean it wasn't amazing programs that I was making for sure. But it was really cool to make the computer play songs and show different text. I wasn't doing IF statements and I think the most complicated thing I did was making a FOR loop. Eventually as I got older I could modify existing programs like NIBBLES to have more levels or be more difficult. In the third grade I started coding stuff to do my Math homework taking 10x as long to actually do the work but having a lot more fun at least.

It wasn't until College though that I started doing the real cool stuff using C++ and Java. I most definitely wasn't a typical kid though. I just kind of had a knack for stuff like that.