Crap, my looooong answer disappeared in a timeout. The short version: in 1999 I was a junior Graphic Designer and was given the task to build our first website

Crap, my looooong answer disappeared in a timeout. The short version: in 1999 I was a junior Graphic Designer and was given the task to build our first website. At the time i thought programming was too abstract. The site was done entirely WYSIWYG in Dreamweaver and total crap but it was online. After a while we saw some cool effect somewhere on the net and I had to implement it on our site. It wasn't that hard, actually, and it soon appeared to me that my way of using graphic design/dtp programs (I knew most keyboard shortcuts by heart, used almost exclusively the keyboard and numerical values to manipulate objects, didn't use rulers…) was actually quite abstract compared to what most of my co-workers and friends did. After that I just gave myself tougher and tougher challenges until I "pivoted" to become a full time Web Developer. The whole transition took 8 years of reading books and tutorials, trying, failing, trying again. But maybe you are more on a hurry?