In the 80s I learned more from pirating software on a Commodore 64 than I did in computer classes in school. I got the skill of figuring out a piece of software with no help or documentation.
The computer equivalent of "teaching a man to fish" I suppose. Shame schools don't teach exploration and play with computers.
That's what happened to me when I was 11. My dad brought home an apple IIe and some manuals. I saved my allowance and bought a 300 baud zoom modem and 4 years later "The Authorities" came banging on the door at 3 a.m and confiscated my precious Apple and all my notes.
Moral of the story: I'm now a professional member of the I.T. Industry
The computer equivalent of "teaching a man to fish" I suppose. Shame schools don't teach exploration and play with computers.