I guess I’m the only antique around these parts 
. I got introduced to programming in 1969 via a paper tape terminal in high school using FORTRAN. But as I wasn’t all that fond of education I took off for a decade or so. Then around 1980 I started university and took just about all math and physics, with one semester in Pascal to fulfill an arts requirement. I took math because, with no labs, no term papers, and a predictable amount of homework, it was the ideal subject for a single parent.
After getting my MSc I spend the next 25 years mostly wandering around the applied math fields in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, and retired in 2009. Those areas provided me a great intro to modern computing, particularly with respect to approaches now lumped together under Bayesian Analysis. So I’ve worked at developing algorithms for solving real world problems from electroquasistatics to Forex to torpedo analysis and ocean acoustics.
Otoh, I’ve spent most of the last decade drawing and painting, leaving the left side of my brain feeling a little under-appreciated. So when I stumbled across this site I thought, well here’s something new, let’s give it a shot!. So I dug out my MatLab, and here I am.
Cheers,
Chris