Thanks for saying that about my writing; it means a lot. On your question, I got started in programming through math homework. My teacher at the time assigned

Thanks for saying that about my writing; it means a lot. On your question, I got started in programming through math homework. My teacher at the time assigned huge ammounts of little geometry problems therfore as a hacker type, I was convinced I could figure it out through a computer. I googled for a while and played around with Python for much more time than I would have done the homework. After a few weeks, with more than a little help from my dad, I had made a little python script that could figure out the area of circles and the like. After that, my mom saw my interest in programming and talked to the local high school's AP CS teacher to see if he could do a little class for me. I imagine doing that is infeasible for most people, but if possible I think a non-parental figure could be great. In terms of problems to solve, I hack a lot on various sysadmin tools for the high school during the year, but I've also played around with trading bots. (My parents work in finance) I'm not really a gamer so I can't really speak to that side of things but I'm sure there are things to do there. On a side note, if either one of your children want to talk, just email me.