My parents sent me to a "computer course" when I was around 8-9, to stop me from messing with all the electronic equipment at home (and sometimes getting electr

My parents sent me to a "computer course" when I was around 8-9, to stop me from messing with all the electronic equipment at home (and sometimes getting electric shock). I was always fascinated with machines and taking them apart. The course turned out to be surprisingly worth it! Since it had kids up to 15yo or so (I may have been the youngest), they introduced some advanced topics. I quickly picked up HTML (with Netscape and Notepad) and at the end they even taught us C in a UNIX environment (we worked on IBM terminals). I'm really glad and thankful I had a chance to learn C that early. I have been taught Pascal, Java, C++ before reaching Uni years but I have always appreciated the compactness of C and compared every other language to it. Discovering Python on my own in high school was like a eureka moment for me. It was the first time since my primary school C episode that I felt "home" with another language.