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Programming is maybe (?) the only professional career at which members are doing passable work before the age of 10. So, it's often fated.
by mynameishere 18y ago
Programming is maybe (?) the only professional career at which members are doing passable work before the age of 10. So, it's often fated.
- hugh 18y agoI'd add music (performance) to the list, but I can't think of any others.
- nostrademons 18y agoGymnastics & figure skating, though very few people can make it as professional gymnasts. That's largely because their bodies give out before they're 20, though. Lots of the manual trades - isn't their a huge uproar about child labor in textile & small goods factories? Probably not what you had in mind, though.
- eru 18y agoHow about Math?
- hugh 18y agoTen-year-olds doing serious mathematical work? I don't think it's happened since maybe Gauss.
- eru 18y agoAt least as serious as programmers at that age.
- hugh 18y agoI'd disagree, just because I think the bar for "passable work" in mathematics is a lot higher than the bar for "passable work" in programming. Passable work, for a mathematician, still means proving something original and nontrivial, whereas passable work for a programmer just means creating something that works.
- eru 18y agoIf you define it that way, you're right. Do you know a ten year old hacker?
- goodkarma 18y agoI learned BASIC on a Radio Shack TRS-80 "Color Computer" that I got 2 weeks after I turned 5. How many out there have been programming since they were kids?
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