Regarding fizz buzz test, I could do that in half an hour at age 15 in BASIC or VB4, which I taught myself when I was in 9th grade for fun.
Hard to believe that any career programmers could not do the same.
I mostly used my VB skills to make Pacman and space invaders style games for Windows 95. It was pretty fun changing the enemy AI code a bit and seeing the results each time.
