I am a Boomer when it comes to coding

Hey, OP, I think it’s cool that you’d like to learn to code. I made my living as a coder for many years and it’s a good career path. But I would not say it’s an essential life skill and the vast majority of people of all ages get by fine without coding skills.

With that out of the way, I’m going to defend the honor of Boomers here. Boomers (and the Silent Gen before them) built the technology industry as we know it today. For example, here’s a list of popular programming languages and their inventors:

• Java: James Gosling (1955) - Boomer
• C: Dennis Ritchie (1941) - Almost a Boomer
• C++: Bjarne Stroustrup (1950) - Boomer
• C#: Anders Hejlsberg (1960) - Boomer
• Python: Guido van Rossum (1956) - Boomer
• PHP: Rasmus Lerdorf (1968) - X Gen
• Perl: Larry Wall (1954) - Boomer
• JavaScript: Brendan Eich (1961) - Boomer
• Ruby: Yukihiro Matsumoto (1965) - Cusp of Boomer/X Gen
• SQL: Raymond Boyce (1946) and Donald Chamberlin (1944) - Boomers
• Go: Robert Griesemer (1964), Rob Pike (1956) and Ken Thompson (1943) - 2 Boomers and an almost-Boomer

<Adjusts onion>. Thank you for your indulgence.