Your story of coding

[Shockeye]

So how did you get drawn into the coding realm?

Well my story was... I got a friend who coded a website, I wanted a make a website like his but I didn't even know how to code. I then expanded my membership on forums and got suddenly intrested in coding. I then saw like, lots of codes which were amazing so I then began a quest on becoming a coder

[Me]

Basically the same story.

I saw a forum that I enjoyed using. It eventually closed, and I decided to make my own. That led me to SSD, and when I saw all the codes people had made I thought, "I wish I could do that."

From then on, I just read tutorials and experimented.

[Signore Kai]

The good old neopets.

I opened a guild, and started looking around for help to customise the page. I was only 11 then. So I started my first brush with HTML.

As I continued, I got really addicted, and started creating pages just to test out the different tags. I must have created at least 100 .html files, just doing different ways to mess with tables, forms, whatever.

Eventually, I found CSS, about half a year later. The same thing happened - I started doing semantics coding.

At 13, I then started on javascript. I saw one of those sliding menus (using DHTML), and decided I needed to learn that.

At 15, I started on PHP, because I finally understand how those forum software works. My first php code, incidentally, wasn't a "Hello World". It was a shoutbox.

I'm still learning, even now.

[Tobias]

I started with Javascript around late 7^th/early 8^th grade, so around 2.5 years ago. Nothing major, mostly alert boxes and window status. That lasted about a month, after which I did nothing for around four months. After that, I started learning HTML, and some CSS and more Javascript, things like onclick, no dots yet. About a year ago I started getting serious with learning JS, and now I'm fairly proficient with it. In the meantime I had also started learning CSS and more advanced HTML, and in the past two months I've learned some PHP and XHTML.