About five-six - I got into my mother's old Pascal books, messed around with TurboPascal on her old DOS machine, and then found and installed DevPascal on the f

About five-six - I got into my mother's old Pascal books, messed around with TurboPascal on her old DOS machine, and then found and installed DevPascal on the family computer. She was an IT teacher, so she kept on getting new textbooks for her classes, and I kept on reading through them - I learned and forgot batch programming, poked instructions in debug.com without really understanding them, thumbed my nose at Java, painstakingly wrote out PHP code on paper, and kept on playing with Pascal until I found Python, maybe by twelve-thirteen? I wasn't a great coder: I was completely self-taught, in a really haphazard way, but it gave me some decent foundations - I probably butted heads with every possible error, which can come in handy surprisingly often.