I started coding when I was 5 years old (cliche, I'm aware). My family moved from Tanzania to Kenya and that gave me a change in preschools, a good change to boot.
In my new preschool, we got the opportunity to visit what we called an Information Computing & Technology (ICT) lab. I remember it like it was yesterday.
The ICT lab was just a bunch of PCs. It was also air conditioned, which actually makes a difference when you live in Africa next to the equator. I'd never really interacted with a full blown PC until this point in my life but to be fair I was 5 years old lol. We were learning how to design a webpage in CSS.
Looking back, it's kinda weird to have a 5 year old cohort learn how to code, especially in CSS like c'mon why not python, but that's precisely why this course was more of a leisure one by the academy allowing kids to see their interests instead of grading them based on their performance in it.
I ended up coding for 3 hours straight and solved our problem statement fully, all my friends left and no one had really solved the problem (it got very boring), so it was just the lab supervisor and I in the room at the end. That was the one time in my life (so far) I'd actually spent that long on a problem.
I think I have ADHD (I'm not diagnosed, just a thought, even now) so this ICT thing was a big deal for my 5 year-old self. It actually turns out that I like working with machines because they listen to me without getting frustrated like most people lol (I yap alot). And conversations makes me happy to this day :)