I started home automation in my late 40-ies, as an amateur developer. Despite having casually developed for 25 years at that point, I found it amazing how much

I started home automation in my late 40-ies, as an amateur developer. Despite having casually developed for 25 years at that point, I found it amazing how much I learned quickly when setting up Home Assistant and pyscript (and obviously mqtt). This drove me to use a bus (mqtt for instance) for non-home automation code just because it is so useful. To friends who wonder how to help their kids get interested in coding (which is not easy at the beginning because converting farenheit to celsius gets boring after some time), I tell them to buy a few zigbee devices and have them automate stuff in pyscript. I am happy to see that some are on the way to graduate in CS :)