I learnt programming from a BBC Micro manual my Dad brought home from a second-hand shop when I was 5. I would just sit and read it and imagine the programs in my head.
It's funny you mention that computers were a boy's thing - they definitely were, but two of my neighbours were girls and they both had computers before me, so I would annoy their parents by going around there as often as I could and getting them to help me type out pages of BASIC.
Later my parents bought me a Spectrum, but I always wonder if the neighbours just paid them off in the end to stop me turning up at all hours of the day and night.
It's funny you mention that computers were a boy's thing - they definitely were, but two of my neighbours were girls and they both had computers before me, so I would annoy their parents by going around there as often as I could and getting them to help me type out pages of BASIC.
Later my parents bought me a Spectrum, but I always wonder if the neighbours just paid them off in the end to stop me turning up at all hours of the day and night.