I am above average developer who learnt by myself, to answer your questions - 1) How did you learn to code? Totally self taught from books and RTFM // Self tau

I am above average developer who learnt by myself, to answer your questions - 1) How did you learn to code? Totally self taught from books and RTFM // Self taught plus MOOCs or comparable resources // Some classes in college but no CS degree, remainder self-taught // Self taught plus a developer bootcamp or some non-degree related formal education // CS degree and personal efforts Unfortunately I never worked in any company so had to learn all the coding by myself and I strongly feels, if you want to be a good developer, you should work in a company and on real world applications with people who knows more than you which speeds up the learning. Though I am working full time on my own marketing product, if given a change, I would love to work part time in any company for free. There are few things which you can never learn from books and tutorial videos 2) When did you start learning (perhaps informative because of the recent rise of MOOCs)? I do have a computer science degree from a reputed engineering college but I learnt nothing there, though I do have exposure towards programming for 10 years, I only started building real world apps in last 12 months. 3) At what point (if yet) did you start working as a programmer professionally relative to your initial efforts? last 12 months, I am learning and writing code in parallel.