The songwriter was just adhering to that old adage of "writing what you know, " having worked as a full-time computer programmer prior to giving the music world a go -- though, as he readily admits, he still keeps it real by coding for his own site.
Teso told the crowd that he used flight-management hardware that he bought on eBay and publicly available flight-simulator software that contains at least some of the same computer coding as real flight software.
Take 13-year-old twins Elizabeth and Rebecca McPherson, who began coding at the age of 11 to learn how to create apps that have a purpose in real-life situations.