On 10-Jun-11, at 11:13 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
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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?
I played a demo of a then-current game:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/05/bill-gates-and-donkey-bas.html
I was told that someone had written this fantastic game in a Computer
Language that resembled English, and I knew I had found my calling.
Subsequently, the most important years of my self-directed programming
education were spent reading and writing code in school notebooks,
much the same as Deepak.
Bottom line is, I became a programmer because of Bill Gates and
possibly the worst game ever written for DOS.
-Taj.
