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>Programming a flight simulator on his Commodore 64 at age 4
This confused me a lot at first- 4 year olds aren't known for their linguistic capabilities or fine motor control, but programming isn't conceptually difficult, and a cursory search led me to finding out that the Commodore 64 ran on a form of BASIC (not a revolutionary discovery I know but this is a layman's perspective), but more importantly, that a popular and quite accessible book was written full of guides on how to create text-based BASIC games.

http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html
This, interestingly, included a couple of things that could be called rudimentary flight sims. Not the sort that most enthusiasts would actually consider such, but they involve a plane and a spaceship respectively.
I think it might be possible for a 4 year old to copy down text from a book like this, but I'd be more inclined to believe it was actually 6 or 7. I'm being extremely generous to this guy really. Though the point is more figuring out just what the hell he meant by coding a rudimentary flight simulator, and considering the way he blows up and aggrandizes other things from very minor relations and achievements, I think it's most likely he copied a text game when he was a kid and worded it in a way that sounds much more impressive than it actually is.
This confused me a lot at first- 4 year olds aren't known for their linguistic capabilities or fine motor control, but programming isn't conceptually difficult, and a cursory search led me to finding out that the Commodore 64 ran on a form of BASIC (not a revolutionary discovery I know but this is a layman's perspective), but more importantly, that a popular and quite accessible book was written full of guides on how to create text-based BASIC games.

http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html
This, interestingly, included a couple of things that could be called rudimentary flight sims. Not the sort that most enthusiasts would actually consider such, but they involve a plane and a spaceship respectively.
I think it might be possible for a 4 year old to copy down text from a book like this, but I'd be more inclined to believe it was actually 6 or 7. I'm being extremely generous to this guy really. Though the point is more figuring out just what the hell he meant by coding a rudimentary flight simulator, and considering the way he blows up and aggrandizes other things from very minor relations and achievements, I think it's most likely he copied a text game when he was a kid and worded it in a way that sounds much more impressive than it actually is.