So, I taught myself how to program because I wanted to learn how to draw a map on the screen.

所以，我自学怎样编程，因为我想,学习怎么在屏幕上画一张地图出来。

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Allegra taught himself to program in Visual Basic at the age of 9, gleaning tricks from Web forums.

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Home-schooled, Lytle taught himself to program computers at age 13.

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For example, did you know that the founder of Instagram has no formal engineering training, but rather was a marketer who taught himself to program and code at night?

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