My first moment of awe working with a computer was when I was 10. It was after I completed my first “real” program.
I was toying with the different command lines available on my father’s personal computer running a version of MS-DOS. I quickly got tired of using “dir” and “copy” after a while and I discovered “qbasic“.
It was a wonderful discovery with full of menus, an editor, some basic windows and the ability to run something. What in the world could I run and how ?
I knew absolutely nothing about QBasic. I went in the help documentation to find some basic statement to produce something meaningful. After a while, I found out how to print some text on the screen, how to do some simple math. I knew nothing about algebra but I figured out I could capture a value in a named area after a while.
Printing text and doing some simple math became boring after a while. I searched my local BBS to find something else to do with this newly acquired power. I found some simple programs written by other people that did various things. I did a few copy-paste from those sources into my program to try out new things. That is when I discovered I could create random things.
It took a few hours, but I manage to put all those knownledge together and create a working D&D character sheet creator (yes, I am a total nerd).
This is how it all started.
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