I remember seeing Delphi for the first time and thinking how cool it is to “create UI with buttons and texts”. It was an older neighbour that did Bachelor’s in Computer Science who showed me. It was as well him who recommended me to study Turbo Pascal 7.0 which is “easy to start with”.

So I bought the book on some flea market. And started iterating through. I remember building a simple calculator, being able to perform simple arithmetic operations. That was cool — to see something being built by you, something that you create.