My case was weird, I always wanted to have a computer. When I was 7 I got to see computer first time, saw few things in basic and logo at school (not even elementary) totally fascinated me. Love it, like wow I type using keyboard and it shows on computer thats so amazing. I would hypothesize that each key must have some sort of signal/signature that makes computer identify them. I still remember LET A=5 LET B=6 LET C=A+B and then C's value would be 11. Teacher taught us to draw rectangle in logo. After that when I was 11 I got my hands on MS visual c++ 2006 or smthng, totally loved it. Didnt go as far as pointers but had pretty much covered all that and Totally loved it. Sister would code in C++ and I was amazed to see how similar they were (didnt knew c++ was super set to C) Wanted to learn java php js by 12-13 years of age. Started using ubuntu 12.04 hahaha. Linux commandline was very good different from cmd and totally awesome. Started reading hacking books and realised this is what I want to do. Currently I am still learning, I aint the sharpest tool but I can atleast think in computer terms.