In a little more detail...

time passed, I was studying in a good school Tahar Kadori, ), mainly I was interested in Math, Physics and was learning English because I felt I’ll need it in the future :) When I was 16, father bought me a computer as a new year present. I was so exited with it! Sure, I spent lots of time playing games (Prince of Persia was the favourite one), but in a year I gave it up. The reason was that I read a book “The depths of programming” by Mahmoud Fayed, and started dreaming of creating AI. Sure, I had to learn programming. So I searched the internet, found some tutorials (it was so little of good), started with Pascal, then moved to Java. I spent 1 year till I finished school studying .
in university I’ve got interested in earning money and I was advised to learn either PHP. I chose PHP because it seemed more simple.
In a year I’ve got my first client (VERY simple site), and got $250 for it. That was so cool to get such money in a country where average salary at that time was $120!!! I created lots of them since then, becoming more and more skillful. Then I was freelancing, my main customers were US entrepreneurs and businesses.