Ask HN: How many "self-taught" programmers and how did you do it? 13 years ago
1. Books and Computers. 2. Between 7th and 8th grade. Learned assembly in 9th. 3. 18. Published article, which is what gave me legitimacy.
My first book was on BASIC, and I had no computer so I wrote out what the computer program and what it'd do in a notebook.
It's been 26 years since, and I'm still going strong.