Before I wrote my first program, I built pysical things. Lego helecopters with improvised rotors driven by the motor of a broken RC car and a 9v battery. I collected circuit boards, opened anything I could (with no concern for my own safety) and ‘repaired’ things that had obvious issues with it, like dodgy contacts/wiring/soldering. I think I was about 9 or 10 years old at this point. I also had various electronics kits, the ones that had little spring contacts for wiring things up, and ...
