I really have no idea where I started programming. I guess you could say I really started on my TI calculator a while back. Then I believe I got into PHP shortly after that. No idea why, I was always amazed by some of the websites on the web and I wanted to know how to do it. So I started teaching myself by reading a few websites. I only purchased two PHP book throughout this learning process because they didn't seem to help me too much. I learn better by examples than anything else really and that's why I stuck to code snippets on other sites.