Originally Posted by drjones

Combination of self-taught, and being thrown into programming project at a computer company i used to work for forced me up to speed really quick.

Soaked up all the knowledge I could from the experienced programmers around me all day, and would get home from work and read books till i passed out.

Any programmmer will tell you the easy part is learning the language. Learning HOW to program is the hard part. Once you learn to program, learning programming languages becomes trivial. Learning a language is like learning the alphabet... learning to program is like learning to write a novel.