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> I started programming at age 12, quite by chance Most of your luck came from being born in a family that could afford a computer and let you spend time on it

• blep_ 3y ago
  That's still by chance.
• magicalhippo 3y ago
  Sure, and that was part of my point. Not everyone will have the same circumstances growing up. And the only thing it'll really affect is how much experience you have at say age 20. And as I said, experience is only part of what makes a productive programmer. That being said, our first computer was paid for by ny dad's work when we had to move, so he could part time remote (no modem tho, so floppys and paper back and forth).