[pcmonk]

When I was thirteen, the dad of one of my friends was a software engineer, and he liked to tell stories about cool stuff he did (he's a pentester). I was interested, so he gave me a CD (7 or 8 years old, though I didn't know it) of Knoppix Linux and told me to look up C tutorials. I did, and was hooked. I still remember my first two compiler errors: (1) the version of gcc was old enough that it required a newline at the end of the file, which I had neglected, and (2) I thought I understood the idea of a function well enough to know that it didn't really matter what you called them, as long as you were consistent; turns out "main" is actually an important name.