I started at 6, my father is a civil engineer that loves to code (he is civil engineer because that was the only engineering degree available to him, otherwise

I started at 6, my father is a civil engineer that loves to code (he is civil engineer because that was the only engineering degree available to him, otherwise he would have taken electrical), his dream is that I would be a computer engineer and that I would invent great things. He started to try to teach me how to code when I was 6, without much success, since I hated typing. Then he showed to me that I could make my own games... This was enough to keep me learning for a while. When I was 9 I asked to learn C (a thing my dad had offered before), he was really happy and thought I wanted to help him in one of his inventions. I learned, helped him a bit, and then wandered off to mod Dink Smallwood (that use C inspired "C-script" as internal scripting language). When my dad found out he was a bit sad, he thought that I finally was wanting to make systems. The same happened when I started to fiddle with ASM, he thought I was going to do something great, then my "great" thing was a crap attempt in making one game engine faster :P My dad is still not really happy, sometimes when I am talking about computer engineering he pouts and remembers me that I had a game design degree instead of computer engineering, but he is now more supportive and gave up in trying to convince me to not code games :P