1) How did you learn to code? Totally self taught from books and RTFM // Self taught plus MOOCs or comparable resources // Some classes in college but no CS degree, remainder self-taught // Self taught plus a developer bootcamp or some non-degree related formal education // CS degree and personal efforts

2) When did you start learning (perhaps informative because of the recent rise of MOOCs)?

3) At what point (if yet) did you start working as a programmer professionally relative to your initial efforts?

I had been wondering about this for a bit and the discussion here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6467914) motivated me to finally post it.

Administrative note: I'm below 200karma so I can't make this a poll, if an admin wants to throw some polling categories in here that'd be cool too.

Edit: added quotes to the self-taught in the title since I realized that with the advent of StackOverflow and various other social learning tools that there are very few who can truly claim not to have learned at someone else's digital knee at some point or benefitted from the currently robust community that exists online now.