Are you a self taught programmer or did you take a programming course?

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Lots of developers I know were self taught programmers including me.

I was wondering how much of the developer community learned programming by taking a course in school or by experimenting, asking questions on forums, reading online articles, and just making it up as you go along? Post whether you were self taught or took classes, what language you program in, and anything else that may be interesting.

P.S. Books count as self taught.

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