Linked by Andy Tars on Fri 25th Apr 2003 17:06 UTC
João Paredes is an almost-21-year-old student of Electrotecnical and Computers Engeneering at Oporto's State University for Engeneering (Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto), in Portugal. He is well known and respected in his community, known to be a visonary and a good leader. Also known to be an excelent programmer, as he's been programming computers for 16 years now (yes, since he was 5).
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A lot of people actually started coding at a very early age, but that doesn't mean that they are any better at coding than a guy who started when he was 18. I started when I was 6 myself and I have to say that I'm a pretty lousy programmer
And besides few people did any advanced stuff at that age. I remember coding some fairly simple graphics routines and text adventures in BASIC on my Sord M5 that's pretty much it.
You don't have to be some kind of wonderchild to do that, it's more a matter of opportunity and creativity.