I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed

I wrote my first line of code in 1983. I was seven years old, typing BASIC into a machine that had less processing power than the chip in your washing machine. I understood that machine completely. Every byte of RAM had a purpose I could trace. Every pixel on screen was there because I&rsquo;d put it there. The path from intention to result was direct, visible, and mine. Forty-two years later,…