my first experience in programming

I don't remember exactly, but it has to be year 1982 when I got my hands on Elektronika B3-21 (Электроника Б3-21). Later on it was more advanced Elektronika B3-34 (Электроника Б3-34), both programmable by assembler-like coding. I was enchanted by those devices for months I spent trying out examples of code written by others and messing around with it trying to do something myself. I think the concept of "lets restart/erase everything and start over" came to me naturally back then :)