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by WastingMyTime89 1068 days ago
It’s also likely that having grown up surrounded by journalists and people working for newspapers, his education allows him to properly write articles as a freshman. That doesn’t prevent him for learning computer science if that’s what he likes doing.
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Yeah if you have insight into why a field is interesting from a younger age, you are more likely to be interested in it yourself as well.

That also goes the other way. My dad was a lawyer, and I know a little more about the law and legal profession than the average joe. However that was enough information to tell me I had no interest in being a lawyer.