Well, at 13 I did build some weird CLI based text adventures in c++, mostly imperative style and badly written.
I knew only how to declare a variable, how to cout/cin, loops and conditions, due to the fact that access to information was almost impossible (we had something like a subscription plan with a limited 20 hours of internet, and finding websites that I could understand about developing in C++ was hard).
I remember the feeling I had the day I learned about classes and functions, a true "wow" moment.
Unfortunately those text adventures died with the hard drive of the computer my parents had.
Yeah I often think about this too... everything today feels so complex, although VB was probably just as complex under the hood. The complexity was just masked by the GUI and WYSIWYG interface.
arnaudvalette|2 years ago
I remember the feeling I had the day I learned about classes and functions, a true "wow" moment.
Unfortunately those text adventures died with the hard drive of the computer my parents had.
cstrat|2 years ago