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A Teenager Shares His Love and Knowledge of Computers

My mom's an engineer. When I was born, she quit her job and started teaching adult computer-education classes. She taught basic programming classes and she had books and manuals lying all over the house all the time. So I'd been writing small programs since I was 5, just from reading computer manuals.

In school I had always been way ahead of the class....

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