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Allan Galarza

My first experience with programming was writing Lua scripts when I was between 13-14. I used to run a "Open" server for a popular MMO back in those days.

I loved being able to write scripts and then see what they would do in game, write quests, add actions to items, etcetera.

I started tinkering a bit with PHP, making edits to some website template I had downloaded for people to make their accounts and characters and I started tinkering with a bit of C++, at least to understand how things were working on the inside, or what every update to the code was adding or changing.

At the time, I don't think I even saw it as programming, I was just having fun. But I always loved the process of having a problem or goal and trying to logically solve it with a program.