I've spent many years just toying around with computers, some of my first memories programming were at 6 or 7 years old copying down basic code out of the back of my IBM pc/jr, Commodore 64, and TI 99 manuals. I taught myself Turbo Pascal when I was in 7th grade. In high school I took an independent study to further my Pascal skills instead of taking a required intro computer course. Now I'm .NET developer.