Probably a bad, or irrelevant, question to ask I agree, but I don't think most people who learn to code early due to parents proving an opportunity. It's more l

Probably a bad, or irrelevant, question to ask I agree, but I don't think most people who learn to code early due to parents proving an opportunity. It's more likely you have an interest in it, or that it means something to you. Merely being introduced to coding isn't necessarily going to motivate a young person to pursue it even if they're very bright. I'd actually posit that most people would be turned off by coding because it's so anal and tedious. Today there are other reasons for people wanting to learn to code: basically publicity. Personally, I learned Basic from a RSTS/E BASIC-PLUS manual at age 9. At the time I was interested in mathematics and would go to the local library to read up on it. When my older brother came home with a printout of a simple program incrementing a variable by one and printing it I was pretty confused, since "A=A+1" doesn't make sense mathematically. When the assignment was explained to me, that you could automate mathematics, it was the most incredible thing I'd ever seen.