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Comment on Ask HN: When was your "ah-ha" moment when learning how to program?

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Started with VIC20 Basic programming. 4 hrs typing from a book, then 2 hrs de-bugging, then no storage so played the sprite game until I was ready to kiss it goodbye and power off.

De-bugging makes you think like a programmer. I can now look at code of a language I do not know and find where the error is by 'gestalt'

Props to taking a VIC20 manual on vacation to Spain. Serious nerd street cred :)

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