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I wonder if kids would use this, but I love the concept. If not for kids, then for others that want to experiment with code.

I like this too!

Remembers me of the days that I started programming on my MSX2 in good old BASIC :)

I remember that my first graphical application was a dutch television testscreen. The source to generate this (including a specific tone) was available in MSX magazine. After that I got hooked on programming..

Too bad there aren't such magazines anymore. It had such a cool way to introduce people to programming. People had to type the code themselves and each line had a checksum number to see if you made any typos.

Maybe we should add such a blog at bloggingabout.net that targets funny small graphical applications primarily for understanding the bits... hmmmm...

The coolest apps were a pacman like game and an application to use the memorymapper of the MSX2 for a DB like application because now we could use the "gigantic" memory that is available through the MM so disk access wasn't required ;)

I really enjoyed programming graphical stuff and that got me interested enough to become a software developer. Not that I am a game programmer... but that is a whole other story...

MSX basic was the first that came into my mind too :) I still got a couple of old MSX-gidsen lying around at home. I was no older then 10 years old when i started coding on my MSX. So you could say "Jong geleerd is oud gedaan" :)

I started programming somewhere around my 11th birthday. But I didn't realy thought about a job as a software developer until I started programming at school when I was like around 17.