i tried to answer the question once myself and have decided on an unattractive answer i wanted to teach a friend programming and as such showed this person how

i tried to answer the question once myself and have decided on an unattractive answer i wanted to teach a friend programming and as such showed this person how to solve problems i had that made me interested in programming the problem was the friend was additionally uninterested in the problem as well as learning to program a solution so instead we just spent time together working in the same space and i asked them to tell me whenever they were frustrated by their tools i knew whatever the ill i could use programming to solve it, be it with bash one liners, computer vision, simple robotics, whatever i find that the best way to make someone interested in something is the align the thing to their interests