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by wrd 4151 days ago
I'm still learning.

I learned elementary programming from my father who taught me some Visual Basic when I was 12, which I played with off and on throughout my teenage years, including writing my first program for profit when I was 18. I didn't major in CS in college, but I still futzed around with Linux in my spare time and occasionally wrote things like poetry generators for fun. After I dropped out of grad school at 23, I took a job programming and that's when I really learned how to code. I recently outgrew that job and so now I'm on my own, learning more.