I don't know if you believe me,,, but I started since grade 5, in Holy Rosary School of Pardo. Where I got my computer king awarde (proud ba naman hehehe). Then I move to
USJR and met some few few kinda weird people who do programming, together with my chain-smoker teacher (I was a drop out kc na addict sa coding laging absent hahahaha then transfer ako
UC)... I started coding in Turbo Pascal but I got discourage after hit by "Runtime Error 200" bug on 486 or any fast machines... later on I move to Turbo C 2.01 (i'm still using it up to now, lightweight lang kc) tapos na addict uli during the big hit of mIRC way back 1995... One of the pioneer in some big channels in Undernet... Where I make my own script, and IRC Bots, with my poor Unix shell account...which terribly expensive that time, but earning some few amounts after having 3 Psybnc (that keeps your IRC NICK online). If you are into Undernet channels.... my nick is PeTerPan-, but seldom online now...only when have some reunions.
I transfered to Saint Paul College sa bulacao LOL... drop ulit sa UC e... naging anak ako ni doktora rosaroso hehehe... It was then I got some free time in computer lab....kc libre at pwede ka gumamit anytime. Our teacher taught us cobol. which I really hate a lot!.... no offense sa mga nagcocobol dyn ha... buti nalng payag ang teacher namin to write my answer in C language... having my OLD Herbert Schildt book...finally I graduated sa highschool ^^... madali lang kc bulahin ang teachers... after that I move somewhere in Luzon area, where I spend most of my time learning and working... no choice...kelangan magsipag.
My lesson

get a DEGREE while EARNING some extra money...