I'm an autodidact.

You can be an autodidact and be one of the best in the world, but without taking a degree or a course, you won't be recognized.

Eitherway, I never had formal classes, but I once went to a tutorial in my university, not much like a class though.

I wish I could have classes but my school district has no programming classes so I'll have to wait till college for programming

\o/

I'm a mix of both: I'm autodidact, but I like when a teacher teaches me things. Then I go autodidact again and sometimes I teach things the teacher doesn't even know of.

Long story:
I started the programming quest about 8 years ago, with an old laptop with MS-DOS 5.0 in it with QBasic (which had a 5* help file) and the floppy drive broken. I wanted to learn the basics to give some functionality to it besides Nibbles. So I started making simple calculators and then I made my awesome Mastermind game in quick basic which never escaped from that computer. If someone has some qbasic program that can make comunications trough the COM port I'd apreciate :p
Then I entered high school and get the TI-83 from my sister and learn't the TI-BASIC (YAY), I made tons of programs on it and the most acclaimed in my class was my tic tac toe with "HIAI" (Half-inteligent artificial inteligence).

I finally got formal programming classes in part of my last year of high school with Visual Basic and I made a mastermind for windows. My curiosity grew up and I went wild trying to learn java, C and C++ so I gave up from these and stayed with the hello world.
In the first semester of university I had classes of programming with MatLab. Then I got my Nspire CAS and learn't my "new" BASIC.
I got scared when I look to assembly code.
Now I'm learning Lua to make the tic tac toe and the mastermind for the nspire.

Short story:
Was autodidact with QBasic, TI-BASIC (83 and nspire) and Lua and I got formal lessons of VB and matlab.
The one I domine the best is TI-BASIC xD

Here's a good thought to think about.

Back in the 1950's when the computer was just being invented there was no such thing as programming classes. These pioneers (which includes my grandfather (which also explains why I was born with the asm programmer gene )) invented programming and defined the rules. Weren't they all autodidacts then? Now why is it that in today's world you have to take formal classes just to be recognized as a good programmer. A good programmer should be recognized by the work and accomplishments they have achieved in the past.

Now I have always been a self taught programmer, but I'm now realizing that if I want to make this my career then I will have to study computer science in college. At my high school there is an AP computer science, but I'm already a more skilled coder then the teacher  I also looked at most college courses and realized that I wouldn't be learning anything significantly new until my third year.

Yeah so that's about it. 

I've never had a formal programming class per se, but I'm currently enrolled in a computer science class (that has absolutely nothing to do with software).

I'm pretty much self taught in every area I have any kind of in-depth knowledge, such as Chemistry, Discrete automata, mechanical design, and BSing essays.