My name is Pranav Negandhi, a software developer by profession. I learned to write programs using GW-BASIC on the IBM XT and AT. My earliest program was a double-entry bookkeeping application, where I wasted far too much time and effort on the splash screen animations instead of the reports. But it gave me a first taste of what computer programming can do. I scored my first job as a multimedia developer around the turn of the century and began to program in Macromedia Director and its esoteric object-oriented language called Lingo. After half a decade with this environment, I was able to graduate to Macromedia’s then cutting-edge product – Flash. Since the past 10 years, I’ve progressed to the .NET framework for desktop and web applications. ©