I have always been interested in computers, and would find myself hanging out with the Computer Science students instead of the Aviation Management or Business Management students I was a part of. At home and at work I have been largely self-teaching myself using computers starting with Excel and Access with VBA through ASP and SQL at work. Thankfully my current employer values education, and so I have been taking classes and not only learning the technology, but un-learning what I have been doing wrong over the years. At home, though, I have been teaching myself Linux, system administration, networking and the overall method of migrating our system from Windows to Linux. I am involved in the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS.org) I have the opportunity to take what I've learned the hard way and hopefully help others.. I have been enjoying Open Source for a while now, and I am hoping to get a better understanding of the entire model and application.
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I started with Basic and Pascal in High School.
Then at my first "real" job I was able to get into VBA in Excel before moving into IT and starting ASP (classic). Then from there I went into ASP.NET.
At home I taught myself PHP, which I am using today.
Oh, and one more thing... I like how Gnome is trying to integrate with online services such as pulling Google Drive files into the file manager and allowing to open/save files regardless of where it really resides.
Alas, this too has not worked for me, but it is a feature that keeps giving me hope.