When I was learning PC gaming and interest in programming tended to go hand in hand, people wanted to program because they wanted to build games or mod games. T

When I was learning PC gaming and interest in programming tended to go hand in hand, people wanted to program because they wanted to build games or mod games. Though I guess now it might be social media, iphone apps or something. As a teenager I didn't exactly grow up poor but my income was restricted to what I could earn by working around my studies, so at most 12 hours a week at minimum wage which for a teenager was something like £3 an hour. At that sort of income doing things like renting servers , iphone SDKs, decent computers etc start to look more expensive.