[jlees]

Neat story. I guess cheating by trial and error doesn't work so well when the impact of an error is physical...

I got into programming through cheating. When I was a little kid I wanted to win at some ZX Spectrum game - Treasure Island Dizzy or something like that. Fortunately, Your Sinclair magazine published a guide on how to PEEK and POKE your way to unlimited lives. That blew my mind, and I credit my interest in the inner workings of computers back to that experience :)