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I was 5.

My dad was really into electronics and got a Windows 95 for home use. He insisted that my sister and I learn how to type.

He also made the fatal mistake of sharing the MechWarrior 2 and MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries CDs that came with our computer with me. I popped them in and got hooked. So I learned how to type, but I also developed a huge love for video games.

Basically, the rest of my childhood was spent thwarting the various ways my parents devised to try and lock me out of using the Internet/playing games. The more my parents tried to keep me off the computer, the more I wanted to be on.

My fascination with video games also made it so I wanted to learn to program. I learned some basic control flows in C++ at 13. Never really went much past that, because I started working in technical theatre and lighting, and spent more of my time programming lights and setting up lighting networks.

Picked it back up again in college, when I started taking game development classes and having to build stuff in Unity and GameMaker.