I'm not sure when I started programming. Around age 12 or 13 I guess. I wrote a lot of crappy BASIC apps on the Atari. Mostly stuff I could use myself. An AD&D character generator. Implemented a very simple windowing system of my own for this one, because I couldn't figure out the native API. God, about 30% of this project must have consisted of the word "goto" *shudder*. Then a math program for drawing graphs for school. And then some other stuff. I have never been a great programmer just because. I'm a programmer because I'm freaking lazy. Why do something manually when a computer can do it faster