Code.org aims to get more kids excited about programming

I started programming when I was just 13 years old, using a Timex Sinclair 1000 make a simple clock appear on the screen with moving dials and all. It took me a few days of pressing hard on a flat-surface style keyboard, and constantly saving my work to a cassette tape backup to finally produce the end result, but when I did I knew I was hooked!

I made my way through simple BASICA programming, then through some Assembler, and the usual batch style languages, and kept learning and growing with every language I learned. It's funny to me looking back at what was available to me in the then, for instance having to read a book and type character for character what I saw while now-a-days you just copy and paste from Google search!

Programming is still exciting to me, and every time I sit in front of my computer and write software, somehow it still feels like I'm creating something that no one else ever has – I think that is the allure that I find in writing code..