I started programming when I was 4. And I wrote two very simple games when I was 5. One of them a spaghetti of IF-THEN-GOTO for a choose-your-own-adventure story.
My Mom taught me how to program. She isn’t a programmer herself (she’s a nurse), This was the 80’s and after she finished typing in by hand a lot of programs found in magazines, she picked up a few of the basics.
I now have a career as a software engineer, in part because a woman got me started.
