1) I got started using Basic on BBC micro, using book borrowed from the local library and bit of help from my parents. Not long after I switched to Q Basic on a

1) I got started using Basic on BBC micro, using book borrowed from the local library and bit of help from my parents. Not long after I switched to Q Basic on a PC, then Visual Basic. Until I was about 13, all the equipment I used was borrowed from my dad's work, so without that most likely I wouldn't have started that early. I learnt Java at Uni and later PHP. I droped in and out of programming in my teens, I didn't seriously start programing bigger projects until Uni. 2) I must have been 9 or 10 when I started. 3) I got paid to do some static HTML stuff when I was 16 but I first go paid to do code when I was 20.