How Did You Learn How To Program?

theodp writes "'Every programmer likely remembers how they learned to code,' writes GeekWire's Taylor Soper. 'For guys like Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the magic began on the Teletype Model 33 (pic). For others, it may have been a few days at a coding workshop like the one I attended for journalists.' If you're in the mood to share how and in what ways your own developer days began, Soper adds, 'cyborg anthropologist' Amber Case is collecting stories to help people understand what it takes to learn how to code. Any fond computer camp stories, kids?"

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I learned to program by ...

[Skapare]

... NOT being distracted by Facebook and Twitter. Good thing those and the whole internet were not around back then.

Re:I learned to program by ...

[houghi]

Distraction will happen regardless of Internet. Before that there was tv, books, radio,
Facebook and Twitter are not the reason of distraction. They are the result. Distraction happens if what you are doing has no value to you at that specific moment.
I am sometimes distracted by looking aimlessly outside.