What writing has taught me about being a software developer

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I started writing programs before I could read properly. I was 5 years old when I wrote my first line of code. I still remember it to this day:

10 print "Hello, world"

I copied that, verbatim, from a book titled “BASIC for Kids” that came with the Apple IIe my father brought home in a box of parts. I couldn’t read the book very well. I…