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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My parents loved and cherished me growing up, and still do, which is part of why I was the only kid in sixth grade with a laptop (the other part was I had a disability accommodation with the school that allowed me to type my assignments rather than write them by hand). The fact that they encouraged my programming talent at that age, didn't get mad when I installed a Fedora dual-boot on that laptop, and bought me the book Python for Kids for my 12th birthday, is why I'm a programmer now.

I'm sorry your parents didn't show you the love and support you deserved, but that's not the criterion we should be looking for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Actually that's also an interesting statistic to cover. What's the proportion of programmers who learnt because they were supported vs unsupported (and while we're at it do code quality analysis just to see)