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I was lucky because I started coding at 13 (Pascal and C). At that point in my life, I could spend all of my free time developing something cool just for fun (

I was lucky because I started coding at 13 (Pascal and C). At that point in my life, I could spend all of my free time developing something cool just for fun (and learning a good foundation in the process). By the time I got to college, new concepts took me a fraction of the time because I already had that foundation. Even now, I went from 10+ years of PHP development to building full Python apps in a short amount of time. Aside from some newer features, it's mostly a syntax change. The basics are the same in every language. I don't think I could start from knowing nothing. I just don't have the time.

rimantas 12y ago
I was also lucky that my "informatics" teacher took matters seriously and taught me how to program without a computer. Yep, we had programming class in school, but school did not have any computers. So she taught what basics (variables, loops, control strucures, etc.) are on paper, using some pseudo-programming language. Later, when I finaly got access to the computers learning the first programming language (MSX Basic) was just a matter of learning the syntax.