[rwhitnah]

Taught myself to program BASIC on my TI-83 graphing calculator. Dad taught me VisualBasic, took high school classes in C++/JAVA, and taught myself Python, JavaScript, and Ruby while working terrible hourly jobs.

Now do full-stack Rails development for a startup.

[xcubic]

Started the same way, with BASIC on a TI-83 and then 84 since the 83 was robbed :)