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Re:Ask HN: What sparked your interest in programming? by agildehaus on Sunday March 10, 2019 @10:34PM (#19356244)
BASIC games printed in 321 Contact magazines that you had to painstakingly enter yourself to play. At about 8 years old.

Ex: http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/zines/others/basictr3.gi...

Inevitably you'd copy something wrong, the game wouldn't compile or wouldn't work correctly, and debugging began.

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