When all my friends got a Commodore 64 for playing in the early 80s, my parents gave me a Thompson TO7 Homecomputer, which had the disadvantage that no games were available. I`ve been 12 years old when I started coding instead of gaming. I learned BASIC first, then switched to ANSI C, when I got my first PC somewhere in the 90s. I`ve never understood the object oriented paradigma, so I left out C++, but eventually succeeded with OOP when I started coding in Java about 2000. Although I had a job (nurse on an ICU in our local hospital) I started to study computer sciences and graduated 2004. Before that I already started to work up for a small start up software company in our town. Since these days I always stuck to Java, although I also did some C++, PHP. To be honest, I`m mostly sick of the fast changing coding world in the business world. To much architectural APIs which make easy things complicated to setup and to deploy. These days I do mostly requirements engineering and system modelling as a profession and save the coding for my private time (though I also have to do some little tool coding in our company from time to time). ©