every programmer has story about how they learned to write their first program started learning as child when my father was working for digital equipment corporationone of the pioneering companies of the modern computing era wrote my first program on kit computer my dad had assembled in our basement the computer consisted of nothing more than bare motherboard connected to keyboard without caseand it had bare cathode ray tube for monitor my initial program was simple number guessing gamewhich looked something like thisi' thinking of numbertry to guess the number ' thinking of too lowguess again too highguess again that' itwould you like to play again(yes/nono thanks for playing