<story><title>We asked 15,000 people how they&apos;re learning to program</title><url>https://medium.freecodecamp.com/we-asked-15-000-people-who-they-are-and-how-theyre-learning-to-code-4104e29b2781#.tesff0l03</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>santaclaus</author><text>I was surprised to see no mention of game development as what drew one into coding. Half the cats I&amp;#x27;ve worked with got bit by the programming bug initially wanting to make games.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hkmurakami</author><text>The survey says that the median age of respondents was 27 and on average they started programming 11 months ago. They didn&amp;#x27;t give a standard deviation, but presumably there are not many who are in their early teens.&lt;p&gt;I say this because the cohort you describe will have started playing games at a younger age, and would have self selected itself out of this survey by venturing into small time game development on their own at an age younger than the survey respondent demographic.</text></comment>
<story><title>We asked 15,000 people how they&apos;re learning to program</title><url>https://medium.freecodecamp.com/we-asked-15-000-people-who-they-are-and-how-theyre-learning-to-code-4104e29b2781#.tesff0l03</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>santaclaus</author><text>I was surprised to see no mention of game development as what drew one into coding. Half the cats I&amp;#x27;ve worked with got bit by the programming bug initially wanting to make games.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucb1e</author><text>Game Maker is what got me started after MSIE 5 let me down - only like ten years later I discovered MSIE did in fact have an error console to show you what you did wrong, making it not completely trial and error!&lt;p&gt;So did creating games pull me into programming? Hmm, kind of, after another avenue failed. But I certainly recognize what you mean, I also know many people who&amp;#x27;d love to make games full time (and some do! Just not all, not enough demand).</text></comment>