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1. Learned Basic from copying/modifying programs from a magazine when I was in elementary school; learned (most of) C/C++ by reading the books that came with Tu
by devonbleak 13y ago
1. Learned Basic from copying/modifying programs from a magazine when I was in elementary school; learned (most of) C/C++ by reading the books that came with Turbo C++ in middle school; formal education was Pascal in high school CS, C in high school taking classes at community college, C++ and Java at university (no degree); taught myself Perl/PHP/shell/Python/JavaScript/HTML/CSS/etc after college.
2. Started in the early-mid 80s.
3. Programming's always been a part of my job but not the primary focus. I guess the first time I got paid to do something like it was around '99.