Re^2: How to introduce 8 year olds to (Perl) programming?

Gee, when I was 11, I wrote a very basic password cracking program to break into a school computer (never ended up running it, but I wrote one - impressed the hell out of some of my friends at the time :-)

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Re^3: How to introduce 8 year olds to (Perl) programming? by kutsu (Priest) on Apr 25, 2005 at 20:08 UTC
I started writing terrible basic and qbasic code when I was 6, but didn't start actually programming til I was 16. You had computers at your school when you were 11?...lucky dog. "Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - I think that I think, therefore I think that I am." Ambrose Bierce	[reply]
Re^4: How to introduce 8 year olds to (Perl) programming? by nimdokk (Vicar) on Apr 25, 2005 at 20:11 UTC
We're talking Apple IIc computers :-) Maybe I was a bit older than 11, but thats what sticks in my mind at the moment. Also wrote a role-playing game in BASIC about that same time too. It did work. Though, I admit, I had help from my dad.	[reply]
Re^4: How to introduce 8 year olds to (Perl) programming? by ambrus (Abbot) on Apr 26, 2005 at 07:43 UTC
You had qbasic when you were 6? Lucky dog. I did have computers at school when I was 11 but those were still Commodores, and we did logo on them (and played games of course).	[reply]