I'm younger than simont and I grew up on Beebs too :-). I started on a Commadore Pet, but don't remember doing much programming before a BBC. I suspect that at age twenty-mumblecoughlots, I'm one of the oldest people to have grown up with computers

There is a family story that, when I was a toddler, I put my mum off computers for over ten years by spotting that she had mistyped something from a beeb-programming book and pointing and saying "That's a syntax error, Mummy" (which it was).