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Discussion on: How did you get into programming in the first place?

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David Roberts

My mom bought me an XT (early 90's). Turned out the store didn't give us MS-DOS. Went back, they gave us MS-DOS plus a book and disc about GW-Basic. My first program was to track my baseball card collection. Then a bank app with withdrawls and deposits, complete with a '!' on deposits and a simple '.' on withdrawls, go for playing to the mindset of the user. Third (and when I really started to take off) was a app for my highschool teacher to help them track student grades and attendance. I was (and still am) having so much fun with it.