Reading, writing and coding
Eight-year-old me used to stay behind after school, typing listings into the primary school’s only BBC Micro. It was likely 1982 and while what I was doing confused the cleaning lady and many of the teachers, to me it felt like the future. I went on to code assembly on the Amiga using its Blitter and Copper custom chips, wrote scripts in DOS and technically did a degree course in computing and some object-orientated programming in C++. Unfortunately, about the last thing I wrote was the custom installer for Amiga Computing magazine’s cover disc! Hey, it calculated the bytes required to copy and then adjusted the progress bar to suit, alongside checking the destination space. Go me!