Self taught. Started programming at the age of 7. It was a programming book designed for kids. It taught BASIC on the Commodore 64. I later went to learn as

Self taught. Started programming at the age of 7. It was a programming book designed for kids. It taught BASIC on the Commodore 64. I later went to learn assembly at age 11 because I was interested in video game development and assembly was the only way to get access to additional functionality / performance. Moved on to C and x86 Assembly in my early teenage years (again motivated by making video games). Moved more to general purpose / web technologies once the Internet started becoming more popular. PHP, Java, Rails, Node.