[mceachen]

12 year old me would have sold their skateboard AND their bike to have a magic Patiently Explain Anything And Everything To Me robot instead of the mostly-impenetrable-to-my-tween-brain software engineering books I had access to in my town.

[t1234s]

exactly... I had a hard time learning in the 90's with whatever I could scrape together for tools and books with no adults or public school system to help me.