I was a programmer then became a designer and I'm back to code again.

I started out with Pascal and QBASIC when I was around 13-14 and then moved onto C++ after a year or two (all this was a part of the school curriculum) but I didn't have a computer of my own so it was just school work and not much of it. I was chosen to try out for the International Programming Olympiad but I had to discontinue the training because they only thought in Sinhala which is our native tongue and I'm not too good at it :/

I got hooked on Adobe Photoshop (I liked Paintshop Pro at the beginning because I thought Photoshop was crap, initially heh heh) in 1999 and got addicted to it Still love it.
I was crap at design though but I was decent at photo manipulation.

I started with CSS + XHTML and other XML technologies around about mid 2003.
I started with PHP in January 2004 and it's a lot like C++ without the OOP so I love it


What about you Nofan, how did you get started?