These are my answers to the more interesting (to me) parts of http://twitter.com/caseorganic's survey of programmers' past history with programming: https://docs.google.com/a/ell.io/forms/d/19yROPBmI2HRrTmyiPvjI49_c4_tAABH5YyORXf2n_7A/viewform
What did your parents do? Were they programmers? If you learned while living with your parents, what did they think of you learning to program? Father: doctor (hence family money for expensive things like computers. Yet another privileged-upbringing developers.), mother: sometimes-architect. Neither knew the slightest thing