[partisan]

I got a Tandy 56k when I was about 7 years old. I tried following the programming instructions in the book with limited success, but I do wish I had an adult who could have helped me along with it. I wanted to make a game like Excitebike.

In college, depressed and unsuccessful in my chemistry major, Quake found me and I fell in love with pc gaming and thought, once again, that I might make games. In junior year, I decided to take Java but though I got an A in the midterm, I couldn’t even get a program to compile. The next semester I transferred to a public college and started a computer science major using C++ of all things where I did really well, made lifelong friends and found my love for programming.

Today, I’ve yet to make a real game, but the journey to trying has taught me much and I really do enjoy creating applications that make things easier for my coworkers so the dream of making video games is on the back burner.