David Blaine (yes, the magician guy). I saw his first TV show when I was a teenager and got interested in magic. I started collecting magic secrets that I found online and built a site to serve as a repository for card sleights-of-hand.
On my first job at an internet cafe, business was slow, so I took the liberty of building a website for it. The owner got happy and told some other people that I could build sites. And then people started paying me to build their sites. I learned Flash, PHP and Javascript as I went (yes, Flash was big back then).
After I got a more fundamental grasp on programming, I started to learn about more advanced stuff on my free time (reading about algorithms, different programming languages, design patterns, etc).
Now I make a pretty decent living with a interesting job, get occasional unsolicited job offers, and I have an open source project that people keep saying they like ( http://lhorie.github.io/mithril ).
On my first job at an internet cafe, business was slow, so I took the liberty of building a website for it. The owner got happy and told some other people that I could build sites. And then people started paying me to build their sites. I learned Flash, PHP and Javascript as I went (yes, Flash was big back then).
After I got a more fundamental grasp on programming, I started to learn about more advanced stuff on my free time (reading about algorithms, different programming languages, design patterns, etc).
Now I make a pretty decent living with a interesting job, get occasional unsolicited job offers, and I have an open source project that people keep saying they like ( http://lhorie.github.io/mithril ).
Moral of the story: I like programming.