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by xigency 3237 days ago
Not to be the "prodigy" kid, but I began game programming at 10 years old because I wanted to know how games worked. I tried to buy a Visual Basic 5 book from Borders before my parents gave me "Beginning Programming for Dummies" instead.

Not sure why these people don't believe that Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts can't tell the weather.