This is very true, and I can attest to it from personal experience. I grew up in Redmond Washington, in the heart of Microsoft - land, surrounded by programmin

This is very true, and I can attest to it from personal experience. I grew up in Redmond Washington, in the heart of Microsoft - land, surrounded by programming and programmers. I learned a lot of the mental meta-skills that go hand in hand with programming, but I didn't ever learn to program, even though I thought it interesting and I wanted to understand it. It was a challenge to even know what I wanted to know, and there wasn't anyone around to answer my "but how, and why?" questions to begin learning. It took till I was in college for me to start learning to program, because I had excellent professors who would answer my questions for literally hours. As well, I finally had problems that needed solving (if for no other reason than I needed to turn them in).