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by stevekemp 1357 days ago
I've written about this before in more detail:

https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming.html

But the reason I started coding in BASIC was because when we received a ZX Spectrum for Christmas one year the cassette player was broken - no preloaded games for us.

I was always more interested in programming, and hacking games for infinite lives than actually playing games!