Re:A Project of One’s Own
by saalweachter on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @03:32PM
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> Hearing all the stories about people starting and getting hooked when they were 11 makes me feel like I lost a dozen years of my life.
To be totally honest, most of us who start programming when we are <some small age> don't really get that large of a head start.
I'd probably count all of my programming experience from ages 10-20 before I switched from math to CS as "no more valuable than 1-2 years of dedicated undergraduate experience".
The biggest value of early programming experience is learning if you enjoy it well enough to not hate a career at it.
To be totally honest, most of us who start programming when we are <some small age> don't really get that large of a head start.
I'd probably count all of my programming experience from ages 10-20 before I switched from math to CS as "no more valuable than 1-2 years of dedicated undergraduate experience".
The biggest value of early programming experience is learning if you enjoy it well enough to not hate a career at it.