Not worthy to learn, but I'm doing it anyway.
I'm not a real programmer by any means, but since I was like 17 I've been very interested in programming languages. I've never learn one of those major languages like C or Java but in those days I was very good writing DOS programs with Basic, Pascal and –sigh– Clipper.
Why was I writing DOS software on a 8088 machine in 1997? Well, that's a story for another time. But then when I have my first Windows machine (a Pentium II circa 2000) I was completely lost. Then I grabbed a pirated copy of Borland Delphi and tried very hard to make Windows software but it was so much a whole new scary world to me that I finally gave up. That was also the time when I've discovered Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and decided to go for the fancier bezier-drawn and gradient-filled design path. Back In 2002, while working as a junior designer on a print shop, I've stumbled on the with a Webmonkey's article about ASP and I became immediately interrested. In the next two or three months I learned ASP and wrote my first CMS (which I never actually used) and in the years coming I slowly learned CSS, PHP and Javascript. It was a natural progression form me and even if sometimes I found it frustrating, it never felt lke something new and scary. Now I'm decided to learn Cocoa programming because I'd like to write software for the mac. Just for fun.And you know what? It scares me to death. Objective-C, it's syntax, and all that high concepts like the interface pattern, the object messages, the delegate objects, garbage collection sounds like stuff so smart that a not-a-real-programmer-but-former-print-shop-junior-designer like me is not worthy enough to understand. But I'm decided to try anyway, because thats how much attention deficient I am.