<p>I saw Hackers in the movie theater when I was 13. I left that theater and decided I wanted to be a hacker. So obviously, the first thing I did was grab my dad's copy of "Learn Visual Basic 3.0 in 21 days" and tear through it in about 3.</p>

<p>Since then I've been programming in constantly changing environments. Never doing one thing long enough to master and memorize, which is why StackOverflow is my savior. I know what I want to know, and SO nearly always has the specific answer I'm looking for. Without it I'm not sure I'd be able to be a programmer, and if I was, I'd be a hell of a lot slower.</p>

Dave Novelli