[sodaplayer]

> That's where I got my first taste of programming - writing a PID controller for a tank turret so I could point the tank's gun using my mouse.

Yeah, same here! I had done a couple of simple personal Flash games previously, but Garry's Mod is where I really felt like I cut my teeth on programming. Doing Wiremod/Expression 2 taught me PID controllers and some basic linear algebra, and after having helped some friends debug their code, taught me the importance of style and good practices.

[tiniuclx]

Wiremod, that was it! What a blast from the past. Garry's Mod is probably the reason I have a career in programming now. That, and Minecraft redstone!

[drchickensalad]

I was an admin on a huge wire mod server as a teen and it changed my life :). I might not even have gotten into software, don't even want to imagine that life