My first ever program was a hangman game that I wrote on my brother’s old TI-85 programmable calculator. It was some 7 years back, when I was in class 8 at school. I don’t remember exactly how it started, as it was quite a long time back.

The TI-85 did not have much memory, so words couldn’t be stored in it. To play, every time, a word had to be entered by someone at the beginning, and the game would be to find that word within 5 mistakes. My dad, my brother and I used to play the game repeatedly and by the time each game ends, I would have thought of a new feature or some improvisation I could do on the program and the program got better and better, and we spent a whole lot of time playing too.

Even back then, my brother was an expert in programming computers and was not too interested in the TI-85 and so, I got a lot of time on it. And soon, seeing my interest in programming, dad got me a computer too and I started with C n stuff.

I saw a TI-85 recently, and that brought the old memories back. Well, to tell you the truth, those days were great too!