I started programming back in mid 70's. I learned BASIC on a teletype system when I was in 6'th grade.

After high school, fell in love with Turbo C and Turbo Pascal (self-taught).

Made a living with local businesses writing customized programs for video store, mom and pop, etc, and other local establishments.

Side note: I was also heavily involved in the technical aspects of Amateur Radio and our local Club. I am not much of a rag-chewer.

Went to college and (formally) learned C, Cobol, and Fortran, etc.

When the WWW came along, I dabbled with HTML and applied my (very old) C skills to making some pretty impressive interactive websites ie online ordering, sql, etc. I owned and maintained my very own web, ftp, wordpress, etc servers which hosted the websites that I built.

After the commercialized web-hosting and website builders came along, as well as the fact that I have been doing this, off and on, for 45 years, I took a break.

Thanks to Covid, I picked up Python pretty easy. I was able to write a GUI Database which included Add, Edit, Sort, Delete, Load, and Save during the first couple of weeks of stay-at-home restrictions.

After coming to the realization that I am not going back to work anytime soon, and wanting to keep my brain active, I am taking on Java!

Thanks to the nice programmers that like to help newbies like me, I am enjoying my new learning adventure. Even though it is frustrating has hell to try to go from old-school C to Java. Java seams to be typing intensive. More so the the C I learned back in the day. ie writing/reading a structure-file compared to writing/reading a class/object-file. But I am figuring it out!