I got started into programming through game development. Started off in Qbasic, which was then being taught in our school. This was towards the end of my 7th grade. Till then, I knew as much about programming as any of my classmates. Me and two of my friends wanted to make a pingpong for our annual exhibition that was up in about two months. However, after two days, the other two gave up. I didn't. It seemed interesting, and a challenge, so I looked up a lot of stuff on the internet, and the most important was how to account for the time delay for the game loop. If I recall correctly, I made use of a sound command, which played a frequency for a certain amount of time, so all the time the game played, there was a low humming noise. Wierd but okay. Also, I remember that I wrote the full code for the pingpong in pen and paper. Ofcourse, there was one user and one computer, and the computer had some wierd heuristical movement, and then the ball also had some randomised speed changes