On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This list contains a large number of self-taught programmers. How did >> you get started, and how did you get to a moderate level of skill? (If >> you want to talk about what happened after that, great, but I am more >> interested in the first two stages)
Nothing as cool as Charles or Eugen, I got started during my B.Sc. Quickly found out that I could easily write programs with a reasonable amount of competency to teach the lab assistants a thing or two. Learnt C on my own and fiddled with cool stuff like TSR, Biosdisk and such. After a few years of writing code, I am bored to do this on a daily basis. I do write code occasionally and for fun. Business challenges are more fun than coding right now. --Venkat
