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DeChamp

I started coding at age 11. We had just gotten new computers in the town I grew up in. They are at the library. I had always been in to games on the atari and my tandy 1000 computer. So when we got new computers, I was stoked!

So I started surfing the net which wasn't much of one back then. I was amazed by how the web pages were built. So I learned what made them work... html.

Sure people say HTML isn't programming, but it was for me back then. I got in to web design, then in high school taught some classes along with my science teacher.

He encouraged me to goto college for it.

2002, I learned about PHP and MySql. I was obsessed!

Fast forward to today, I'm 35, been coding professionally for 15 years now.

I've coded in PHP, JavaScript, Python. I've built some multi-million dollar apps for business and I have about 30 unfinished projects of my own :P

Still love to learn every day, and other than the 3 months of class on PHP in 2002, I'm fully self taught.