:. Introduction++

I have, for years, been interested in electronics and computers and figuring out how they work. As has been the pattern for the rest of my life, I started programming by teaching myself in my spare time. It started with Visual Basic 4.0 in the mid 90s while I was still in the early years of middle school. Unfortunately, there are few languages that I can say I know "fully" because I've never had a real course in the majority of the languages I know. I've always found myself capable of teaching myself programming languages to my own satisfaction, which is why I chose to take courses in other subjects in college. The following is a list of programming languages I know:

College level instruction:	Minor college level instruction:	Self-taught:
Java - 4 years Scheme - 1 year	A few assembly languages (incl. PIC microcontroller assembly) - 3 years C / C++ - 3 years LabVIEW - 1 year Maple - 1 year Mathematica - 1 year Matlab - 4 years VEE - 1 year Verilog - 1 year VHDL - 2 years	ASP - 1 year BASIC - 2 years C# - 1 year JavaScript (including AJAX) - 1 year Perl - 6 years PHP - 2 years sh - 1 year SQL - 2 years Visual Basic - 3 years

I have used these in a number of projects of mine.

In addition, I compete in Project Euler where my profile is here (login required). My solutions to these problems are here, but you can only see the language & number of lines of code, not the code. (This is to keep people from cheating the project).