Article content By his own admission, James Gosling has always been a geek. Growing up in Calgary in the 1960s, he was drawn to building things from mechanical parts and went dumpster diving to find pieces to use in personal projects. After a tour of the University of Calgary, a teenaged Gosling began sneaking into the school’s computer science labs and discovered a new passion: writing code. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Java creator to help teach Calgary elementary students how to code Back to video “The big advantage of doing software at that age was that I could do it and it wouldn’t cost me money,” Gosling said.