When i was 6 i decided that coding with my fingers just wasnt as fast as using my feet, thats why they now call me the big hairy toe'd coder(the singing was just a sideline that took off.)

I soon grew out of programming though after i wrote the seminal classic 'sellotape dispensor simulator 2.' After the immense success i decided that i should pursue other interests which included leaving the house more.

But i still think this clever kids acheivements should be recognized quickly before he goes off the rails!

Heroes in a half shell.

Oh, we used to dream of havin' BASIC or assembler. We used to have to flip individual bits wit' tongue.

That's so unfair, when I was 9, I couldn't even afford an Iphone!

How about coding all the mentioned langs (Basic, ugh, I agree), Pascal, Assembler (x86 and 6502), on illegally cloned PCs (and Apple II's for the record), without ANY documentation (just by looking on reverse-engineered code)?

And by no means of selling anything.

That was behind the Iron Curtain back then. Poor us.

I could crank out programs in Basic (ugh), Pascal, C, and x86 assember before I turned 10. And back then (*gets out cane*) there was none of the easy framework stuff. It was int 21h or Win16 APIs all the way. Admittedly, I didn't actually manage to sell anything until I was 12 ...

While I'm a few standard deviations off the mean, I know a couple other people who also were coding before 10, so it can't be that unusual. Especially nowadays when computers, software, and documentation is way more available.

Who does that??