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Meanwhile teenage-me (~13) had a ton of absurd questions and a habit of starting and 'announcing' projects I could obviously never finish (I was just teaching m
by dotnet00 4y ago
Meanwhile teenage-me (~13) had a ton of absurd questions and a habit of starting and 'announcing' projects I could obviously never finish (I was just teaching myself BASIC at the time and asking about making things like antiviruses). I didn't even really have an understanding of licenses etc so I eventually pissed off a bunch of people on the forum for the specific dialect I was learning. I imagine dealing with enough people like young me (curious but too much effort to babysit) might cause people to have negative associations of young teens in programming.
My parents didn't really care for my interest in computers, thinking that I was wasting time and sacrificing school on 'games'. Although they at least humored me on getting books on more modern languages like C# so I managed to improve. For a bit I even held an immature grudge on the guy who got mad at me which motivated me to get better. Nowadays it's all just a funny memory though.