I found Feross Aboukhadiejeh's story interesting as it is similar to my own story of how I learned to program computers. I started programming when I was 12 years old. I learned the basics from books, but also from experimenting with changing things in other peoples programs to see what each command did and how it would affect the programs. I wrote a program in the Navy that was used for at least 20 years by the Navy Submarine Fleet and may still be in use. I did not work on any web pages until I was stationed in Japan in the Navy. My work with web pages however was only experimental to see how it was done, after I had successfully created a few interactive web pages I went back to doing my standard programming. Currently my job at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard has me programming some fairly complicated macros for data processing/data aggregation in Microsoft Excel. Oh and yes, I am one of those who became obsessed with programming. I have spent large amounts of time programming and generally have a lot of side projects.
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