“Dad, I think coding is my thing“ my 9-year-old said after hours of JavaScript course. She completed a level 28 task faster than me with fewer lines of code. I felt threatened and proud at the same time.
When I was her age, I begged my dad to buy me a computer. I taught myself everything from installing Windows to setting up software. By the time I was 18, I was a computer nerd but my mum pushed me toward electrical engineering.
My real comeback to computer science and my true passion happened 20 years later when I got a job at AWS where I got to do coding and networking on top of my role. That’s when a voice inside me said: “Never leave this industry again.”
I didn’t want to push my kids towards computer science or anything like my mum did to me, but I think I’ve found her thing.
Mohsin With E 
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