No kidding. I learnt programming about the time we started on algebra. I credit my game programming efforts with teaching me the intuition to put "text problem

No kidding. I learnt programming about the time we started on algebra. I credit my game programming efforts with teaching me the intuition to put "text problems" into formulas and how to look at the physical or natural world. And no, I was no genius, and even in school I was less successful than many of my peers who didn't do any programming (though quite a few did).