I am 18. I first started programming around 8, but my interest increased from 12-onwards (8-13 was mostly just HTML, Javascript and PHP without much knowledge; at 12 I picked up C++ and, from there, I developed my skills). If you can fit my young years in the "current time", then, yes, kids still like to do it. Though, we're ~200 in our "Informatics Engineering" course (the best in Portugal) and very very few people learned to program alone (as in: developed interest and went with it). Some more have learned to do some programming because they chose to study technology right at the age of 15, but what they learned is really basic and somewhat flawed. I know 4 people that came into here with good programming skills, but none of them had a deep knowledge of computer architecture: either they coded "web" or they coded very very high-level stuff. So I'd say I'm an exception, together with them; we're still here, though.
