Ask HN: How many "self-taught" programmers and how did you do it? 13 years ago
self-taught. I was a Physics student in college when a friend showed me how you could simply combine a few commands in a linux shell to make more complicated commands. I think he probably showed me grep something | wc -l. And that piqued my curiosity. I went from playing with bash to learning Perl and eventually a job as a webdev guy.