[heuroci]

Very similar. ZX-48 at 11 years of age. First some graphics programs, then a chess program. The first program I "invented" was a guessing game. I graduated to pascal a couple of years after on a PC. The class was for professional adults, most of them engineers by training so I was the only kid. I did not have a PC, so I wrote pascal long hand through the week and then typed when in class. Fun times!