I love programming.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away … I’ve got a Nintendo NES. It was nice to play Super Mario, Mega Man, and other classic games, but the games were rather expensive. So I convinced my parents to buy an even more expensive personal computer (PC). Games for the PC were also expensive, so I looked into other stuff I can do with a PC. I’ve figured out that a PC can be used in many different ways beyond gaming and I got a book about C++, learned about Linux, got into the Internet, and found out about the K Desktop environment (KDE). This is when I became more familiar with programming and started contributing to KDE and other Open Source projects.

Programming becomes a bit of a hobby of mine and still is. I’ve loved doing it in my free time. From there it was an obvious choice to study computer science and make a living with programming.

I guess everybody should learn to program. It teaches you to think. I’m pretty sure I will teach my kids how to do it and you should do the same. Also, with programming or code, you can change the world for the better.