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It sure did to me. I started by learning basic, forth, pascal and 6502 assembler in the early 80s. Did tons of games, word processor and compiler projects. Then went to CS program had to deal with fortran and Cobol on projects that were not challenging. The intership i did ay[t a company supporting cobol maintenance sealed it there was zero way i could be a developer. Did many jobs from auditing, network engineer, product manager, etc until as gained seniority ended up managing development teams. Then i truly loved it once had the ability to shape direction of project. But funnythat never worked for the role fot. Degree on. However, getting tnat degree was key on my professional career