He taught himself programming so that he could share his passion for photography with others.
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He taught himself to sail and took part in several big races in Australian waters.
Even more incredible than the mere fact of this feat is that this is not an innate talent, but rather a skill he taught himself.
To create his Kickstarter campaign, Erick had to make a video explaining the project, so he taught himself how to use Sony Vegas video editing software.
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When Sehat was 12, he taught himself analog signal processing by taking apart his family's Philips six-transistor radio and rebuilding it one component at a time.
Characteristically, he taught himself to compose music at the age of nine, and wrote a number of pieces over the years, some of which were recorded.
Chris says computers have changed beyond recognition since he taught himself to code on a Sinclair Spectrum - but he sounds a note of caution for would-be professional coders.
He taught himself the basics of artificial intelligence software and built an app called Facemood, which tells you the emotional state of your friends by monitoring their Facebook status.
He taught himself the basics of artificial intelligence software and built an app called Facemood, which told you the emotional state of your friends by monitoring their Facebook status.
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So, with no experience or training as a programmer, he taught himself BASIC and wrote PC-Talk, which was the first (and for a long time the best) communications program for the PC.
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Dissatisfied with the soft steel pitons used by other climbers, he taught himself blacksmithing and created a spike of chrome nickel steel so strong and light that it fundamentally changed the sport.
He taught himself to speak again with the help of Rosetta Stone English and his six-year-old granddaughter, but he still gets words mixed up once in a while, and apologizes often for speaking slowly.
Using the Hebrew he had taught himself to be able to reach out to Israelis, Husseini was a frequent guest on Israeli television and radio talk shows, explaining the Palestinian point of view.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb has stated publicly that he favours the older methods that he himself was taught by, and that he believes it is not an issue if children do not understand why they work.
He had shown precocity as a child, when he and his sister used to try to outdo each other by declaiming from memory grand speeches from Corneille and Racine, and he was fluent in Latin and had taught himself Greek before he was 12.
So he hunkered down and taught himself to be a great value investor.
He played harmonica and taught himself songs on a guitar, starting with "When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland, " a Carter Family favorite.
He studied martial arts and taught himself how to ride a unicycle, eat fire, and juggle, getting to the point where he could keep five balls in the air at a time.
D. and a paralegal certificate through a correspondence course, and he taught Felton how to advocate for himself.
With sixty sheep to one boy and all the tree shade he could want, my grandfather taught himself to read that first summer.
Soon he was teaching himself, staying one week ahead of the students he taught, and within weeks he was a skilled strummer.
Although he confesses to being a "coding novice, " Langevin taught himself how to use Arduino -- a very cheap and increasingly popular microcontroller -- so that he could get his prosthetic hand to move.
He left school at 14, and apparently taught himself to read by listening to his sister's records and matching the words to those on the record sleeves.
He bought a used coal-fired forge and taught himself how to blacksmith.
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He's also a juggler, a skill Mraz taught himself during the downtime that comes with touring.
An immigrant himself from Licey al Medio, Dominican Republic, he taught in New York public schools for years before he could vote for city leaders.
Young George taught himself to play guitar, and by the time he was a teenager he was singing on the streets and in the clubs of Beaumont, Texas, not far from his birthplace of Saratoga.
Wolfowitz taught himself Arabic in the nineteen-eighties, when he was working at the State Department. (He also speaks French, German, Hebrew, and Indonesian.) Last year, during a visit to a mosque in eastern China, he recited a prayer from the Koran in Arabic.
Rolando, who'd taught himself Pashto using an MP3 player, chatted amiably with the local men he encountered.
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