First feeble programming attempts were made when I was 12 years old and computers like Spectravideo and Spectrum were hot stuff. Games back then were so poor, that I found altering them more interesting than playing them (back then, even some commercial games were written with Basic). Since then I have had a lot of self-educating experience, but no formal school education in computer sciences. Still, I currently work in large industrial company's R&D-department as software designer / programmer. Not bad.