I`m am male IT Consultant from Canada. I first wrote code for the Commodore 64 at the age of 8 because it didn`t come with any games but had a very cool feature: You could type and run BASIC programs directly from the command prompt. At first I didn`t own an external Floppy or Cassette tape drive So if I needed a program, I had no choice but to code it, and it would remain in memory for as long as I didn`t switch the commodore`s power off. I was lucky enough that my 16 years old big brother who owned the computer and showed me the bases of programming also bought a subscription to a commodore`s enthusiast magazine that came with BASIC listings for some pretty cool games every months, So I patiently typed them in, page after page of old, Arcane Commodore BASIC. Because you see, this was before the Time of Visual Basic and Integrated Development environments. Hell, this was the very beginnings of procedural programming, and most programmers still used spaghetti code full of GoTo ( BASIC`s equivalent to assembly`s jmp() ). And we had no editor to enter all that code. It had to be typed at the command propmt, without any tools, not even copy or paste... However, I learned many coding tricks from those listings, at first I changed a few values here and there to MOD games, but soon enough I was coding my own. When came the time to choose what discipline to study in, the choice was easy. Even though my strongest disciplines in highschool were always physics, chemistry and Biology and I really would have loved to work in a lab at my own research projects I knew that at first I would have to work for many years in someone else`s lab... and of course if you make instruments of death you`ll get tons of funding and the coolest new tools, but try to actually help people and suddenly all the bells and whistles make way for the silent sound of crickets... Medicine also fascinates me, but I couldn`t stand to work in a hospital and see people die every day, and also I ain`t very fond of prostate exams, but having to drain the puss of the infected hemorrhoid of an aggressive and very intoxicated homeless person really ain`t my cup of tea, and a medical student`s internship is a couple of years filled with such lovely experiences. So, as I said earlier the choice was simple: I had always loved to code and Everybody needs programs. Coding is also a form of art, and there are many ways to code a behavior, from the horrible WYSIWYG generated code to an elegant little C++ Class. Finally, I have a Cat called Yoda wich I love, so I may have some cat-inspired questions from time to time. But please, don`t tell Yoda about Schrodinger`s Cat... ©