I grew up on computers.  When my grandfather used to use his computer I sat on his lap and was fascinated with everything he did.  Later I became more then just a spectator, he got me a few educational computer games whenever I was at his house I played them for hours on end.  After they became boring I started with the word processor.  I wrote a story, which at my young age I figured I would publish and become rich and famous.  Instead it turned into a school assignment and eventually I stopped working on it leaving it unfinished.

     Eventually my mother broke down and purchased us a computer.  Then I was able to do whatever I wanted whenever I wanted on the computer.  Since I had my own computer I could take it apart with out getting any guff from someone else.  I took it apart and learned the squirrels that ran the machine as well as I already knew the peanuts that kept them running.  I installed hardware and took hardware out.  I learned what I could on my own that is what has out me where I am today.

     We got online and I started learning the ways of the web.  I looked at the code of some web pages but didn't write any pages.  In school I got into the Internet club where I was the president because I knew the most programming in the club.  While in the club I wrote a page that I put on a free web page serving service and added many cool things to it, mouse overs and everything else under the sun.  I did all the programming in notepad and did use any of the web page publishing software that was available at the time.  In my computer basics class the last thing we did was write a web page and I did one on writing web pages, it wasn't to bad but I never did any thing with it.  This page I wrote with NetObject Fusion 4.0.  It helped greatly, it did all the programming for me, all I had to do was tell it what I wanted where and it wrote the code for it.

     I was also in another computer club that year.  It was called The Student Technician Program.  What it was was a group of students that were computer savvy and were able to handle any computer problems that might arise.  The teachers in the school that would be using the computers in the labs and the computers in their class rooms told the teacher that ran the program that they would need assistance in using the computers.  Then they would find out which student in the program was free during that period and they would be assigned to assist that teacher.  It was the first year that it had been done and it went pretty well.

     In the following year not as many computer-oriented classes were offered so I took only one that seemed interesting to me.  They introduced us to programming by teaching us the language of Pascal.  I started in one class were I had some "Competition" in writing the programs.  But I was moved and in the class that I was moved to it seemed that there was no competition.  When I completed the programs with days to spare before they had to be done I turned to the graphics feature of Pascal.  I was the only one working on graphics, which made it pretty amazing to see it, in fact it wasn't until the end of the year that everyone else even began on graphics.  But beyond graphics I went deeper into regular programming.  I learned how to make it make noise, I learned how to use stuff from dos in my programs and many other things.