Programming appealed to me as soon as I was shown BASIC on a BBC at the back of the classroom, then via the Vtech ‘Pre-Computer 1000’ that I was given in Christmas 1990. It had a single line of dot matrix screen which scrolled questions but the best feature was simple BASIC functionality – which was great fun to explore.
Only thing was that there was no way to save the file – it was in volatile RAM that was lost as soon as the power button was pressed. This led to my first Program notebook – a tradition that I continue today for Python.
