How did you learn to code?

My one is one I think a fair few people know about. I basically worked with someone else on a server and wanted to re-name TotalFreedomMod and add myself to developer as I had been working on the websites (Something I'd learnt about far too long ago now to remember). Prozza (DarthSalamon at the time) basically told me he wouldnt help, but to teach my self I should watch the new boston and some other bits, I started watching the new boston, got bored and just started hacking and slashing TFM around. To this day I never went back and finished watching the tutorials, and I still to be honest have a fairly limited knowledge around Java as a language and how to create things. My job as a software engineer now while it should be 100% java based, is actually more infrastructure at the moment, so I haven't really taught myself how to code properly in Java, though I did do an online course around Python, so I can build a python calculator, I know a bit of bash through again lots of googling for something I had to do at work and I also started to learn the basics of AngularJS through a video series online, probably the new boston again, but I cant remember.

Really I just have an understanding of the general principles of development and the languages, I dont really have any real knowledge in any of those areas because I've never needed it. Even to this day while Im looking at updating TFM, I dont really need to know any-more than the fundamentals of java to make the appropriate changes. To be honest, once my Apprenticeship with this company finishes, I doubt I'll really be doing much development, my area of expertise now is more around infrastructure and networking more than development (Given I dont know a massive amount about networking, its something I am doing a lot of now, and its quite interesting, like if anyone doesnt know a lot about networking go read up on some bits, its quite interesting).