1) Totally self taught. When I first got online, I thought the concept of websites was really cool, viewed the source of the first page I knew existed (from an

1) Totally self taught. When I first got online, I thought the concept of websites was really cool, viewed the source of the first page I knew existed (from an ad in magazine!), copied it and edited. There was only one HTML course worth reading at the time in my language and that's what got me started. Then another developer on IRC told me about PHP, then got into server administration and so on. By the time I got to uni I had some small commercial projects under my belt; University wasn't helpful, as most of the stuff we were taught was outdated, but I did learn to work in groups better. Most of my basic programming knowledge came from PHP manual and the comments within. Since then, a lot of my knowledge just comes from experience.. you learn by doing, something has gone wrong - Google it. Now that I'm working, when I'm desperate, I have peers to bother too, but prefer working it out myself. 2) 1999 at the age of 12 - that was just HTML/CSS at the time, got into PHP within a year or so, then more advanced JS / node.js / Ruby in the last 3 years of working professionally. 3) Got my first job not long after finishing University - 2010