It just seemed like such a natural extension of what I already knew that it never occurred to me to be thankful for the time I spent trying to make my own simple little games until much later. In the end I am still occasionally making little forays into game programming when I want to...
Sometimes someone will put a post into one of the QBasic forums that will give me an idea for a program. If you're new to programming it's very tempting to look at a program that's taken someone else a long time to write, such as one of the many RPGs (Role Playing Games) and...