Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by luismedel 982 days ago
I'm sure there's a lot of ways to enjoy programming other than "grow as an engineer".

I'm 42 and started programming in BASIC at 9 thanks to a ZX Spectrum my father bring home one day. During a lot of years my programs were all absolute crap by any standards, but I really enjoyed programming little shenaningans and crappy games. I didn't grew up by any engineering measure, but enjoyed the ride a lot.

That's programming too, if you ask me.