Awesome stuff! Had a lot of questions hope you don't mind am father to a few boys who love legos and have just gotten into logic gaming.

How long have you been programming?

What was your early exposure like? Which language tools, legos, games, etc?

Did you have a mentor or self learning? Anyone else in your family programs?

Does academia suffer as a consequence? (It did for me)

I was self taught at 13 (GWBasic on a Commodore PC10) but had very little mentoring and no internet access which limited my trajectory.