Are you kidding me? This is what being a hacker is all about... Getting access to a computer for the first time, immediately trying to figure everything out. Add on the fact that she's in a country that strongly encourages going into other fields and the fact that there probably isn't much support to go into this field and you've got a very inspiring story.

Then getting the "obsession" to figure everything out, trying out linux (or other open source OS's), and going from there to become proficient with programming.

I think this is very relevant to me as well as other hackers.