In the 90s, people had the excuse of not having the internet. As a kid in the 90s, I sort of knew I wanted to do more advanced stuff with my computer. I saw som

In the 90s, people had the excuse of not having the internet. As a kid in the 90s, I sort of knew I wanted to do more advanced stuff with my computer. I saw some ads in a computer magazine about a software to write software. So I bugged my mum into buying me Code Warrior for MacOS. I found myself in front of a white text editor, no indication of what to do next, no one around me who knew anything about programming, I had not even heard of C++. As I result I didn’t get into programming before university. Kids today have way less excuses. Between easier languages and libraries, better tools, way more resources available at their fingertips, much higher concentration of people knowledgeable around them, way more fun things they can do with computers, and a generally accepted idea that being good with computers is a good thing career wise (in the 90s it was often seen by parents as merely a sophisticated game console).