Self taught with the Stanford Course during my first and second year at university before I ended up at an agency where I had developers guiding me with patterns, syntax and other programming fundamentals.

I've now graduated with a first and work as a full time developer at a startup.

My one piece of advice would be to set yourself an idea and try to build it. Build, try and don't be afraid of exceptions. They're there to help you.

My portfolio - http://kathuria.me