Comment by supportengineer
6 days ago
My teenagers have zero interest in programming. They like just about everything else other than programming. They both have the ability, but it’s not what they want to spend their time doing.
6 days ago
My teenagers have zero interest in programming. They like just about everything else other than programming. They both have the ability, but it’s not what they want to spend their time doing.
For what it’s worth I hated programming as a kid and was not interested in it and didn’t pick it up until well into university. A couple of my siblings followed the same arc.
The surest way I’ve seen is to show something practical that can be done - which can be relatively easy with things that interact with the real world - like programming Home Assistant to do things, especially things to annoy siblings and parents, like lights that turn themselves back off.
> show something practical that can be done
The consumer tech industry's primary objective is "engagement" aka wasting human time and is thus intentionally hostile to automation or any kind of programmatic interactions, so it isn't easy to find such things.