My dad taught CS at high-school beside math, physics, and chess. He got a C64 when I was in kindergarten and showed me how to load up games and write simple thr

My dad taught CS at high-school beside math, physics, and chess. He got a C64 when I was in kindergarten and showed me how to load up games and write simple three liners in Basic. As a young teen I got interested in game development and my dad taught me some Pascal and C. I never really gained much traction because I just couldn't see how learning about data structures and OO could benefit me if all I wanted to do was putting pixels on the screen. But it was enough to realize that programming could be fun. Later I decided to study CS because I thought I had a knack for solving logical problems and that learning how to program wouldn't be too hard for me. This turned out to be true, and although I would drop out of college soon I was always in the top 10 percentage when it came to doing programming assignments or exams. I spent my 20s making music, getting drunk and chasing after girls. When my dad became ill with cancer I had to find a job fast in order to support myself, so I skimmed Michael Hartl's Rails book and put Rails on my CV. Shortly thereafter I scored a job at a corporation working on a Rails project with about 50-ish Models and what felt like hundreds of routes and controllers, not knowing why the parentheses were missing from the method calls or where some of those Methods are defined (in the Helpers folder). I showed my dad what I was working on when I visited him at the hospital and he seemed pleased. Two months after he died I got laid off after working there for a year because the company made some losses (about 22 million Euros if I remember correctly) and I wasn't contributing to the core business. I was going to quit anyway because I didn't feel challenged anymore. Anyway: Yes. My dad has done a lot to make me interested in Science and IT.