1/ At first I learned by self-teaching thanks to books and thanks to the great resources available on the internet. Mostly web development. When I decided to go

1/ At first I learned by self-teaching thanks to books and thanks to the great resources available on the internet. Mostly web development. When I decided to go professional, I attended a 8 month training with .Net followed by a 4 month internship, to be sure that my skills were compliant with what the market needed. 2/Grew up in the countryside, without access to computers. So I'm a late bloomer: I started programming around my 20, while doing a degree in biology. Enjoyed it so much that I first thought about doing a mixed cursus, then completely put aside my degree. 3/Started to program professionally 4/5 years after having written my first line of code (did some short internships and some programming for friends before that, but I consider it to be professional programming only from the point when I joined a company). I've now been working for three years, still learning in the background to grab a maximum amount of software engineer and CS skills. Been promoted recently to team lead.