[pengo]

In 1990 I was programme director of a radio station and had an ongoing requirement that only software could efficiently deliver. There was no suitable app available and I had neither the budget nor management permission to pay for it to be written. In the end I said "How hard can this be?", took home a (very primitive) laptop with DOS and GB-BASIC on it, and taught myself to code.

With the lessons I learnt from that I bought a c compiler and kept learning. Six years later I left the radio industry to work full time as a developer.