My mother was always interested in everything and always eager to learn new things.
While working at the office of several life insurance agents, she took several computer programming courses. I think she learned BASIC and COBOL. If I remember correctly, she suggested to the regional headquarters that a certain process could be better supported if a program were written to eliminate some of the manual steps. Her contact at the regional headquarters knew she had passed several computer programming courses, so he offered her some extra money if she wrote the program herself. So she did.
The computer program my mother had written worked fine the first few times it was used. But then it got into an endless loop. The person using the program at the time never got a response back and the mainframe computer used up a lot of time, that the insurance company had to pay for, for no productive reason. So although the program did do what it was supposed to do and simply needed better debugging, my mother never wrote any more computer programs.
I did always think it was cool that my mother knew a lot about computers and computer programing at a time when very few people knew anything at all about them.