[MaxMax]

Did you play the Twilight Zone? That was my first game on the TRS-80.
I had to program it in, then fix all the bugs from the magazine typos
to make it work. Programming was easy once you used it enough.

[21twelve]

I know a guy that interviewed with some Silicon valley company “way back when”. He bought a computer and programed it off some magazine (maybe the same program?) before the interview. That was his entire computer experience going into the interview - but he could answer “yes” when they asked “Do you have programming experience?”. He got the job! He retired from Microsoft 8 years ago at the age of 48.