As a person with over 2 decade of rich experience in Information Technologies, I am now specialized in web app development and a modern web design.
My first touch with the computers was a long time ago. I got my very first computer - Commodore C-64. Oh those were the days.... I remember that I got two books with it, Basic and Simon's Basic Cookbooks. Then, I started to learn programming. Not so long after I've built my very first E-PROM Module (copy of the Action Cartridge) which had freeze button for opt in into machine code and could change the values in games and programs such as Infinity lives, ammo, lame some intros etc. So, that was my learning curve to the machine program language.
Frequently my friend and I used to help his uncle fixing Flipper machines, Poker machines and a Video game consoles. So the electronics weren't strange to us. We figured out that we could make a little production of the Action cartridges for C-64. And our little shed business had been started. His uncle helped us by making the interface for Amiga and E-prom programmer so we can program the E-prom Modules. That was funny but not so cost effective. Good experience before High school.
In the High school we had Informatics as the subject but with poor content. I was in front of my school friends with knowledge and that was boring.
My first Personal Computer I have got when I went to college. PC Pentium AMD K5 100MHz sounds funny but then that was almost high end PC. A few software was installed on it, along side MS Windows 95. Delphi programming language (OOP software based on Pascal) made a big impression to me. Object Oriented Programming has begun to raise. Visual Basic, Visual C also had their expansion that days.
On the college I have learned Pascal and C++ on the first year. On the second year of studying we had more complex subjects related with math and electronics such as Principals of Automated Signal Processing (using Mathlab and Symulink), Informational Systems and Databases, etc.
And so forth I got better and better in IT.