"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> Basically I was trying to tackle a problem having no idea where to start 
> or how to structure it.
>
> I was only 11, after all...

Let me think... 11, for me, would have been 1972-3, which would have been 
the sixth grade... I didn't have access to any kind of computer anywhere 
(that would come about four years later, when my shool got a remote terminal 
attached to an IBM system 34). I *was* into electronics at that point, and a 
rigged a kind of programmable light board out of some scrap wood, parts from 
about a dozen flashlights and some resistors. You could patch jumper wires 
into clips on the board to make little puzzles to solve by flipping numbered 
switches. A couple of years after that, I spent some time building TTL 
circuits, which was really cool, but not as flexible as I would have liked.

But, man oh man, when I did get started programming, I new I'd come home. :D

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