These two prior submissions generated a lot of interest:<p>2022, 1482 points, 593 comments: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33330864">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33330864</a><p>2018, 814 points, 403 comments: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787275">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787275</a>
Wow.<p>My dad was born at about the same time, but came into programming indirectly: he was an accountant, the company got a computer (Honeywell, maybe?), and he was told to figure out how to use it. So he was purely self-taught.<p>As a teen (so, in the mid-70s) I remember going in after hours to write programs with him, finding primes, perfect numbers and such. Fun times...