This is going back a long way but for myself, I never had any interest in programming until there was something I wanted to make (in my case, games on my calcul

This is going back a long way but for myself, I never had any interest in programming until there was something I wanted to make (in my case, games on my calculator). That gave me the motivation to teach myself programming. Even now I always need a project with a goal in order to get excited about code.