> Sadly true. If you haven't been practicing since before puberty, you will never be a professional classical performer. This is correct about 99.999% of the t

> Sadly true. If you haven't been practicing since before puberty, you will never be a professional classical performer. This is correct about 99.999% of the time. The exception is when extreme levels of talent and interest are simultaneously involved. Barry Tuckwell, one of the great virtuoso French hornists of the 20th century, started playing at 14 and was playing professionally within six months. Hermann Baumann, another virtuoso French horn soloist, started playing when he was 17. Anyway, I think that interest in programming before college is a likely indicator of independent interest and self-directed learning. I know a lot of folks majoring in CS or trying to get into development simply because it's a lot more lucrative than many other professions. Many(not all) of these folks don't have a genuine interest in programming which makes it unlikely that they will be effective developers.