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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

I started writing code aged 7 (in BASIC on the ZX Spectrum)... possibly even earlier if you include programming "Big Trak", which was somewhat like drawing stuff using the "Turtle" language.

ZX Spectrum (1982)Big Trak (1979)

By the time we were vaguely taught anything about programming in school (about age 13 or 14?) I was already a considerably better programmer than the teacher - and was correcting his mistakes.

The earlier the better!