How did you get into computer programming? (Responses)

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1	Timestamp	What year did you start programming?	How old were you when you started programming?	How did you find out about computer programming?	Your gender identity.	What (or who) convinced you to actually start programming?	Did you study computer science in college at all?	Did you get a degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, etc?	Do you have any relations that studied computer programming or work as computer programmers?	Did you go to college?

2	7/17/2015 9:33:25	2001	17	Playing video games for a lot of my childhood.	male	I took CS 101 in college and got hooked. Also really enjoyed all the math behind it.	Yes	Yes	Brother
3	7/17/2015 9:35:29	2007	22	College	male	Steve Wozniack Auto Biography iWoz inspired me to learn more about computers and programming,	Yes	No	Friends
4	7/17/2015 9:36:54	1987	12	My father was a computer programmer. I found out about programming from magazines and "instruction manuals" that came with computers and software at the time. I probably typed in a few BASIC programs from before I was 12 but I didn't genuinely start "programming" my own stuff until then.	male	I always seem to have wanted to do it. Maybe following in my father's footsteps... he was always encouraging me to be analytical with the computers at home, not just play games on them.	No	No	Grandfather did mechanical tabulation. Father programmed earliest computer systems, punched cards, you name it.
5	7/17/2015 9:38:01	1978	14	Had a radio shack toy that used logic to control lights. Had a father who programmed for IBM. Had a grand father who was chief engineer at WNBC.	male	Being to discover how something worked and then make the computer do what I wanted.	Yes	Yes	Father worked on punch card systems.
6	7/17/2015 9:38:52	1981	10	Classes at summer programs	male	Mark Dixon, male, professor in college. He told me that he thought I could do it professionally.	Yes	No	Best friend, male
7	7/17/2015 9:39:40	2001	19	My grandfather.	male	My freshman year girlfriend in college.	Yes	Yes	No
8	7/17/2015 9:40:26	2002	9	Neopets tutorials on basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript	female	I did myself for the hobbyist programming as a kid, and my best friend from college who is maleconvinced me that since I like it so much and hate my current job so much that I should code for a living. Joining Hack Reactor in October, starting a software engineering internship with Optimizely in January	Yes	No	No family relations, my parents barely know how to turn a computer on
9	7/17/2015 9:40:35	2001	27	My spouse is a programmer.	female	I started out tech editing a book about VBA. That led to co-authoring books, authoring articles, and eventually into web development.	Yes	No	My spouse did/does.
10	7/17/2015 9:40:45	2006	17	Playing games on the internet.	male	I wanted to learn how to make my own games.	Yes	Yes	My uncle - went to school for computer engineering, got a graduate degree.
11	7/17/2015 9:40:50	1993	13	My father	male	My father	Yes	No	No
12	7/17/2015 9:41:23	1980	12	My dad programmed at his job.	male	My dad.	Yes	Yes	Father
13	7/17/2015 9:41:24	1984	7	Interested in computer games, bought a TRS Color Computer II and started to experiment with BASIC.	male	No one.	Yes	Yes	No
14	7/17/2015 9:41:51	1998	18	Liked computers are high school level. Moved onto further education and found out more there.	male	Had to as part of course syllabus. Was originally convinced that computer programming was "too hard for me" though.	No	No	No
15	7/17/2015 9:42:28	1990	12	Father was a programmer. So using a home computer.	male	Curiosity about what my dad did and while he was teaching my older brother about it I figured it out myself.	Yes	Yes	Father male Wife female
16	7/17/2015 9:42:56	1997	14	Owned a TI-85 graphing calculator for algebra class. During summer, wanted to learn how to write BASIC programs for it to create a number guessing game.	male	Just wanting to play more with TI-85 graphing calculator.	Yes	Yes	No.
17	7/17/2015 9:43:03	2006	17	course advertisement	male	personal interest	Yes	No
18	7/17/2015 9:44:01	2011	23	Mom	male	I thought it made sense to have the skill so u learned it. Actually enjoyed it	Yes	No	Mom did math back when computer science was in the math department.
19	7/17/2015 9:44:49	1990	5	We had a Commodore 64 in the house that my sister programmed, and I learned about it by watching her.	male	Some combination of wanting to emulate my older sister and wanting to make computer games like the ones I was playing.	Yes	Yes	My sister studied it through high school but did not continue; my father programmed some computers as part of his electrical engineering work but didn't specialize in it.
20	7/17/2015 9:45:58	2001	21	I've wanted to make video games since getting my NES when I was 5.	male	My wife asked me to take an Oracle SQL class with her. I had more fun than I thought I would. Soon after that, an online maleacquaintance that hosted my website enabled PHP3 so I could turn my static site into a cms.	No	No	Nope. Closest to that is my wife worked on MS Access databases when I met her. I learned VB to help her out (and woo her). I then realized this was a LOT like the Borland DB thing my Dad used to build a baseball card organizer for me.
21	7/17/2015 9:47:41	1987	7	My dad took me to work with him during the summer when I was out of school. He showed me the TRS-80 they had in the office. Someone had written custom BASIC software to handle payroll for the company. There were BASIC books around, and they made me my own floppy disk to play around with. I only learned a tiny bit of code that year (PRINT, GOTO, LPRINT, maybe reading input?) but I was pretty hooked on computers and programming from that point.	male	I don't remember anyone "convincing" me to program. Computers just seemed interesting and something I wanted to learn about. I do think the office manager, Alma, taught me my first bit of coding, though. My dad didn't know anything about it.	Yes	No	My sister (became a programmer after me.)
22	7/17/2015 9:48:52	2004	15	My mom and dad	female	...Neopets? Building mini websites was fun.	Yes	Yes	Dad studied EECS, Mom studied English but now works in IT
23	7/17/2015 9:51:35	2001	18	I chose CS as a major	male	Kinda had to, to get my CS degree	Yes	Yes
24	7/17/2015 9:51:42	1995	12	My father is a programmer and he taught me basic computer stuff.	male	My father, again.	Yes	No	My uncle
25	7/17/2015 9:52:54	1991	9	My maledad was a computer programmer	male	Seeing the cool stuff my dad could do and wanting to make games	Yes	Yes	malefather and uncle
26	7/17/2015 9:57:38	1984	14	My parents bought my younger brother a computer, but he didn't want it. It was a Commodore 64 and the only way to interact was through programming.	female and genderqueer	I had my brothers computer and was curious, so I taught myself some basic but stopped programming after I ran out of instructions in the manual the computer came with. I didn't know anyone who was programming and was stuck about what to do next. I started again in 1998 when a career counselor realized I could be good at programming.	No	No	My aunt got a masters in Math in the 70s and programmed with punch cards for years. She dropped out of math and computers after a couple years to raise my cousins. Then she became an oncology nurse.
27	7/17/2015 9:58:47	1997	8	My dad (an accountant) got scooped up into programming in his work and eventually moved into software full-time, but he started teaching me around the time that he was learning.	male	My dad (again) wanted to start a business when I was around 13 and we started building a shopping cart application to run it.	Yes	No	One of my uncles and his son are both electrical engineers with lots of education, and my dad's father was a civil engineer. Lots of math and critical thinking in my family but my dad and I are the first people to work or study in computer programming.
28	7/17/2015 10:00:11	1992	11	By accident...I discovered you can control HyperCard through a language called HyperTalk. I remember my father telling me that I did my first programming, but I didn't believe him because it was fun and not at all what I expected.	male	I think my father was my main motivator, though it was mainly because it was fun to me.	Yes	Yes	No.
29	7/17/2015 10:01:27	2013	32	My boyfriend inspired me to try it	female	My boyfriend inspired me to try it	Yes	No	No relatives, just friends
30	7/17/2015 10:07:15	2003	7	My first "real" programming started when I was visiting mobile phone modding forums – I discovered MIDletPascal there, it had a good manual built-in, so I learned the basic constructs and started trying to make apps for my phone. Before that, when I was even younger, I somehow discovered making .bat scripts on Windows 95, I guess that counts. I mean, my scripts didn't contain anything smart, only printing text, reading text and launching one another... but now that I think of it, some of the scripts I write now do pretty much that :D	agender	I didn't need any convincing really, it kind of came "naturally".	Yes		My father used to work as a programmer a long time ago, now he's a CEO of a small hosting+SEO+webdev company.
31	7/17/2015 10:13:12	1983	7	I was a smart, bored, hyperactive kid. The one thing my elementary school found that calmed me down was plonking me down at a computer with a stack of programming books.	male	The principal at my elementary school started me. But, a woman running a summer enrichment program at the Jr. High helped me dig in further over a few years	Yes	Yes	Not really.
32	7/17/2015 10:13:30	1982	14	A malefriend (also 14) got a Commodore 64 and started trying to learn assembly. I got a VIC20 fiddled with it for a few months, learning Basic, but other than one semester of Pascal in high school, I didn't program again until my fourth year in college.	male	I realized at the beginning of my fourth year in college that writing fiction probably wouldn't keep me fed, so I accumulated enough credits for a computer science minor in the next two years, hoping it would be a more regular wage. I imagine my (divorced) mother and father both independently said something like "you like computers, do something with that!"	Yes	No	No
33	7/17/2015 10:14:23	1995	15	High School class offering	male	I loved video games and computers and thought it might be an interesting thing to study	Yes	Yes	No
34	7/17/2015 10:15:51	1987	8	Tandy computer and basic books bought by father. Note: stopped programming for a while until high school (1996ish).	female	Too young to know how I was convinced if at all	Yes	Yes
35	7/17/2015 10:19:57	1988	8	My Uncle, media (I remember WarGames being an early influence)	male	Atari 32XE my parents bought really got me into it.	Yes	No	No
36	7/17/2015 10:20:46	2006	14	Took a class in high school about different media. Had a small web design course (maybe two weeks). Got addicted to that and moved to the backend slowly.	male	Curiosity for how websites worked.	Yes	No	No
37	7/17/2015 10:22:26	1998	13	A malefriend's dad introduced us to QBasic	male	The power to make a computer do whatever you wanted	Yes	Yes	no
38	7/17/2015 10:24:07	2004	13	my brother(about 16 at the time) was taking a class in HTML webpage creation. I learned that from some print outs he had from the class. From there I wanted an application that could actually do something and ended up programming in DarkBasic as my first real programming language	male	I started doing it cause I enjoy computers and makign them do what I want, and generally enjoy creating things.	Yes	No	my uncle was a programmer in MUMPS, though I wouldn't say he was an influence
39	7/17/2015 10:28:18	2004	11	web development book in the library	male	me	No	No	father, male
40	7/17/2015 10:29:01	1976	8	My father was an engineer and tinkered with electronics in his spare time--I picked it up from him. I also read his Byte magazines, Dr. Dobbs, etc.	male	I wanted to make the machines do cool things, so I bugged my father until he showed me a few things, then handed me the manuals.	Yes	No	wife (female) (embedded Javascript in PDF forms, Python)
41	7/17/2015 10:29:25	1995	18	Older friend took CS in school	male	Nobody	Yes	Yes	No
42	7/17/2015 10:32:02	1982	12	School, home computer. femaleteacher. maleand femaleparents.	male	femaleteacher. maleand femaleparents.	Yes	No	No.
43	7/17/2015 10:35:01	1994	15	I had a family personal computer ... I deduced you had to tell it how to do things. We had a decent modem and the computer was used for the family business as well as me being allowed to use it. A few years later my parents gave it to me and upgraded .... and I discovered the internet on my own.	male	me ... I wanted to make the computers do things	No	No	No	No
44	7/17/2015 10:36:35	1992	14	a femaleCS instructor at the local science museum a maleCS instructor at the local science museum earlier, my mom	male	every day after school I played in multiuser dungeons (during the pre-Web days), and I wanted to learn how to make changes to the dynamics of the game itself so I started reading the source code (C) and went from there. (full story here: http://tashian.com/carl/muds.html)	Yes	Yes	no
45	7/17/2015 10:36:40	2004	17	College course about dynamic websites	male	I had a natural flair and good grades. The lecturer was inspiring and combined with me picking it up so quick encouraged and pushed me further	No	No	No	Yes
46	7/17/2015 10:40:09	1983	7	My parents bought a TRS-80. It came with 2 books: a beginner and advanced programming books. I would type in the examples from the books and modify them a bit. I also saw war games as a kid and thought it was neat.	female	I'm not sure. I liked playing games on the computer, and creating little programs from the books seemed like fun. It's something I did off and on throughout my childhood.	Yes	Yes	I met my husband at college who is also a programmer.	Yes
47	7/17/2015 10:43:22	1997	11	My older sister showed me what she could do and I got hooked.	male	See previous answer	Yes	Yes	My sister	Yes
48	7/17/2015 10:44:45	1984	7	my uncle had bought a zx spectrum for my (female) cousins, and when we visited i'd explore it. it came with a manual for the included basic. my mother got books on basic programming out of the library for me.	male	it was just the machine itself. i became fascinated that i could control the tv and make writing and pictures show up.	Yes	Yes	half-uncle	Yes
49	7/17/2015 10:48:25	1998	14	I had messed around with BASIC when I was very young because we were fortunate to have a computer in the house and I had been writing calculator programs to help in school; but when I was 14 I started to really be interested in the internet and making websites. We had dialup at my house and I was fascinated by the whole thing. While I was dabbling when I was young I wasn't really focused on learning to do more with software. It wasn't until I was exposed to the internet that I really dedicated myself to learning more about programming in general.	male	It was fun.	Yes	Yes	No, I'm the only one in my family who is technically inclined.	Yes
50	7/17/2015 10:54:12	1982	11	My parents bought the computer as a Christmas present. It came with a BASIC manual. Other than that I was self taught (I.e. terrible for a very long time)	male	I was mad keen. I'd dash into shops to try things out on display models. Nothing could have stopped me.	Yes	No	No.	Yes
51	7/17/2015 10:55:58	2000	12	Wanted to know how websites worked, so started creating my own	male		Yes	Yes	No	Yes
52	7/17/2015 10:56:03	1984	10	Dad brought TRS80 back home	male	It was new and fun to get the computer doing what we want her to do.	Yes	Yes	Brother, male Wife, female Sister in law Father in law Friends (gathered during studies and work) both maleand female	Yes
53	7/17/2015 10:56:56	2009	18	I chose Computing Science as a Major in university	male	The web. I hated programming in Java, it was boring and seemed way too ceremonial to get anything accomplished in it. That's when I discovered JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. I then tried some Ruby, and then focused mainly on Golang after that.	Yes	Yes	Just some friends, all guys though.	Yes
54	7/17/2015 10:59:46	1998	27	Started while I was working in an IT department, and I took over a logon 'script' (Visual Basic) from an older (male) co-worker.	male	After taking over above logon script, I realised that I loved programming much more than IT ops work, and I wanted to do it for a living.	Yes	No		Yes
55	7/17/2015 11:01:57	1983	9	A family friend (male) was demonstrating a new computer running programs. The programs were entered by hand from a book.	male	having a computer at home that included no software. The computer came with a programming book.	Yes	Yes	No.	Yes
56	7/17/2015 11:02:45	1991	12	My mom sent me to a course.	male	My mom.	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
57	7/17/2015 11:04:06	1988	17	First, elementary school but did more programming in High School (Basic and Pascal). In college I was drawn to it but decided to not pursue it as a career. In 1998 or so decided to try and change my career from Accounting and in 2000 was offered a position in our IT department. I have always dabbled in programming when I had the chance at work and at school, but at home I usually did not have the computers, time AND knowledge to learn.	male	In 2000 I was brought into the MIS department from accounting, and had to self-teach myself MS SQL Server and ASP websites. Since then I have moved to ASP.NET and PHP (along with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)	Yes	No	I made friends with the Computer Science major or minor students at College and understood most of what they talked about even though I was not pursuing a degree at that time. My brother works some with computers and then pursued an MBA and MIS (at the same time) from BU. Afterwards it took a while before he landed a job. So while he was educated, he didn't have experience. I had experience but didn't have education until I got into my current company that has sent me to .NET and other classes. I also made sure they knew they would have to send me to class for ASP.NET, and that my ASP (classic) training would only help "so" far.	Yes
58	7/17/2015 11:17:13	1996	11	I was using mIRC and found out it had scripting capabilities	male	I was curious what scripts were, looked at the default ones and started changing them to do new things.	No	No	None	No
59	7/17/2015 11:19:30	1998	12	The internet	male	I made a static website and wanted to add interactivity.	Yes	Yes	Older brother	Yes
60	7/17/2015 11:22:34	1990	10	I was given access to a room full of Tandy CoCo TRS-80 computers and the manuals that came with them as part of my TAG class. The manuals had program listings in the back	male		Yes	Yes	no	Yes
61	7/17/2015 11:25:34	1981	14	Friends with computers. They didn't do any programming on their own. At best they typed in programs from magazines.	male	Curiosity. I first modified the programs friends had, and then started my own experiments.	Yes	Yes	Nope, and still don't.	Yes
62	7/17/2015 11:26:40	1990	16	books & friend with computer	male	First - games, later - overall interest	No	No	No	Yes
63	7/17/2015 11:28:53	1982	9	I received a Christmas present of a TI/99-4a. It had a basic interpreter built in.	male	The idea of computer programming was the interesting thing in and of itself. Probably science fiction stories helped, but I have no direct influencer that I can point to.	Yes	No	No.	Yes
64	7/17/2015 11:29:21	1974	21	got involved in electrical engineering. the microprocessor was invented about this time.	male	general interest I guess. helped several friends build motherboards at that time because you could not purchase a pre-assembled one back then.	Yes	Yes	no blood relations	Yes
65	7/17/2015 11:30:09	1995	12	I always knew it was available as a thing. I kind of stumbled into it with my TI-83 graphing calculator	male	I wanted to automate my math homework	No	No	no	Yes
66	7/17/2015 11:30:10	1984	14	Was given access to BASIC computers in school. maleteachers.	male	I had my own fascination.	No	No	No	Yes
67	7/17/2015 11:40:59	1981	11	A school friend's dad worked in electronics and built a zx81.	male	You couldn't do anything with the zx81 unless you did it yourself and it seemed like fun.	Yes	Yes	No.	Yes
68	7/17/2015 11:44:24	2000	10	I started by playing around with HTML and gradually extended my knowledge. HTML->PHP->Javascript->Ruby->...	male	Nobody. I learned whatever I needed and what interested me.	Yes	Yes	No. My father is a Mathematician and he programms a little from time to time at work.	Yes
69	7/17/2015 11:46:44	1983	10	Father was doing it for office automation. It was just about the only way to make computers do things at the time.	male	I wanted to make my own games.	Yes	No	Uncle is programmer.	Yes
70	7/17/2015 11:47:52	1985	9	My mother told me what programming is.	male	I wanted to create games.	Yes	Yes	No.	Yes
71	7/17/2015 11:47:56	1989	5	Parents, father and mother	male	Parents	Yes	Yes	Parents, younger brother	Yes
72	7/17/2015 11:50:07	1984	8	My dad I guess	male	No one really. I just wanted to try	Yes	Yes	Kind of but never really discuss what we do	Yes
73	7/17/2015 11:50:43	1984	10	Programming in LOGO with a turtle on an Apple ][ c	male	I can't remember but it was at elementary school.	Yes	No	None	Yes
74	7/17/2015 11:51:30	1986	6	Dad	male	Dad	Yes	No	No	Yes
75	7/17/2015 11:52:03	1983	10	My elementary school got a couple of TRS-80 color computers and pretty much no software for them, so I started learning how to write my own.	male	I think I mostly got interested in it on my own, but I may have been steered in that direction by a teacher ... I can't remember now.	Yes	No		Yes
76	7/17/2015 11:57:19	2003	16	the internet!	female	wanting to make my own website	No	No	no	Yes
77	7/17/2015 11:57:40	1983	7	LOGO classes at elementary school, followed by a book on BASIC programming for the APple IIe.	male	School librarian.	Yes	No		Yes
78	7/17/2015 11:59:31	1994	13	My father	male	Sick of doing my math homework	Yes	Yes	My father	Yes
79	7/17/2015 12:00:48	1983	6	My father (male) showed me a little bit of BASIC on the Apple II.	male	Once I started to learn how I could make the computer do things, I was hooked!	Yes	Yes	Cousin - male
80	7/17/2015 12:02:19	1986	8	My malefriend--also 8--showed me a simple game he'd programmed on an Apple ][e.	male	See above.	Yes	Yes	No.	Yes
81	7/17/2015 12:02:31	1978	9	My father introduced me to it.	male	My father.	Yes	Yes	None	Yes
82	7/17/2015 12:07:01	2002	18		male		Yes	Yes	Wife, female	Yes
83	7/17/2015 12:09:39	2012	35	colleague at work	male	Myself - needed to analyze data which wasn't possible without learning	No	No	No	Yes
84	7/17/2015 12:17:10	2005	12	Building websites because it was fun and could be taken apart and re-assembled. Self-introduced, so to speak.	male	-	Yes	Yes	Scout leader - male Other scout leader - male Uncle - male	Yes
85	7/17/2015 12:17:31	2003	24	My maleMSc supervisor used it regularly	male	Just seeing what was possible when people use code	Yes	No	No	Yes
86	7/17/2015 12:20:33	2006	19	Took intro to CS as a junior in college after I decided my real major (math) wasn't what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.	male	I hated it until we got to pointers. Then I saw the power of what we were doing. (Instead of toy programs like "print a pyramid of stars on the console".)	Yes	No	No	Yes
87	7/17/2015 12:24:19	1988	11	I think watching Wargames was the first thing that got me interested in programming.	male	Getting a computer (an Amstrad CPC6128) which came with a load of BASIC games in the manual that you could write yourself.	No	No		No
88	7/17/2015 12:25:28	1985	6	My family had a small entertainment computer (Tandy, I think). One day my father showed me that it could be programmed using BASIC, and I copied the sample code in the manual. In my second grade math class, we were taught programming using Logo doing "turtle graphics".	male	Curiosity. My father originally showed me that programming was a thing.	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
89	7/17/2015 12:31:27	1990	12	Through a Turkish magazine called "Commodore". Published monthly and came with a booklet containing pages of BASIC & Machine code listing.	male	I was a loyal subscriber of this aforementioned magazine. At first, all I was interested in was typing small game source code listing that came with it. At some point I got curious as to see how seemingly illegitimate bunch of characters ended up becoming small but fully working games. I still remember the day when I wrote my 2 line BASIC program.	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
90	7/17/2015 12:34:08	2003	14	Researched how to make a game	male	I wanted to make a game.	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
91	7/17/2015 12:40:13	1992	13	Played games on parents' computer. "Hacked" game binaries using Mac ResEdit program. Bought "World Builder" program which allowed you to make your own games.	male	My uncle was a professional programmer. He gave me a copy of Visual Basic, and taught me the basics of how to use it.	Yes	Yes	Uncle	Yes
92	7/17/2015 12:41:43	1998	14	Both my parents are computer programmers	male	I think my mom left a PHP/MySQL book on a desk at home. Around the time where I started using the web more and more. And there was easily accessible free PHP hosting in France at that time.	Yes	No		Yes
93	7/17/2015 12:42:21	1998	18	When I started university. My dorm had wired access to campus internet. I was first introduced to programming through IRC while attempting to learn how to make my own website.	male	The desire to build websites and also potentially pay for my studies.	No	No	Some friends.	Yes
94	7/17/2015 12:45:05	1986	14	Through playing computer games	male	Wanting to make games	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
95	7/17/2015 12:45:19	1988	9	My computer teacher in elementary school, a woman, got us all to learn Basic.	male	My computer teacher in elementary school, a woman.	Yes	No	No.	Yes
96	7/17/2015 12:46:28	1995	12	I don't really know. It was probably to play games in BASIC, so... my dad?	male	I just picked it up when I found out I could make it do things I wanted instead of just following what others had programmed	No	No	None	Yes
97	7/17/2015 12:49:07	2011	23	Aware of it as long as I can remember.	female	The malePI of my undergrad lab told me bioinformatics was the wave of the future.	No	No		Yes
98	7/17/2015 12:50:03	2004	14	My secondary school gave courses in programming, and i was into computers	male	Curiosity & the satisfaction of solving problems by finding out how to make the computer do it for you.	No	No	Father, male	Yes
99	7/17/2015 12:55:42	2012	27	I wished I could build the things that the engineers at my company were taking a while to do, so I googled "how to build a website" and ended up attending a full-stack bootcamp.	female	Same way as how I found out about it. I wished I could build the things that the engineers at my company were taking a while to do, so I googled "how to build a website" and ended up attending a full-stack bootcamp.	No	No	No	Yes
100	7/17/2015 12:56:42	1990	7	maleneigbours had a computer academy.	male	Was allowed to play in aforementioned comp academy and asked if I could be taught how to make the programs I was using.	No	No	Half Sister (studied engineering and works as a dba)	Yes