I made my first attempts at coding at around 13-14, maybe sooner, when trying to change config file of the game clonk planet[0], but quickly gave up on changing

I made my first attempts at coding at around 13-14, maybe sooner, when trying to change config file of the game clonk planet[0], but quickly gave up on changing anything significant. Didn't really touch another line of code for several years, it wasn't even in my focus, when I began reading XKCD and thought to myself - maybe LISP is for me... At that time I was around 18, and didn't even make the whole tutorial (the one provided by DrRacket) - it did introduce me to some general programming concepts though, which would prove helpful later on. It didn't help that I didn't visit the right school for it - there I learned mostly languages and didn't pay attention in Maths, which proved to be a really stupid move. In the year after my "Matura" exam which is probably the italian high school diploma (I might be mistaken), I frequented a year-long course on web development - in the End we should have been able to call ourselves "Webmasters". There we were taught the very basics of html and css in two weeks and javascript in another two-week block, as well as some tinkering with our own virtual server writing simple bash scripts and generally trying out Debian. Now I'm in a secure but not very well-paid job as webdeveloper, where I have to code in classic ASP and mostly just do boring-as-hell copy-paste work. [0]http://www.clonk.de/ http://www.clonk.de/