Well I started with pascal at the age of eight or something. Can't really remember that much, but I think my cousin taught be some C at the time as well. Later on I learned Java but never developed anything big. For a few years I've been doing Cobol for a living and started looking at greener pastures with Python and C++.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and did some MIPS at a course in uni some time ago. Loved it.

Well if you're on a technical uni there are a lot of people who actually know how to code. No worry about that.