Started "coding" in 5th grade when I didn't have money for Minecraft, so I built a WinForms app that sent me other players' login credentials via email after they downloaded and ran my app (sorry).

Learned C++ in 8th grade, but didn't have enough real-world experience to use it properly. I was able to build working clones of STL-provided containers such as vector or queue, but obviously they were blatantly nowhere near as efficient as the ones in STL.

Throughout high school I experimented with several personal projects that never reached stable completion, including: a browser-based chess game with chess engine implementation, a WinForms Minecraft server manager, a compiled front-end library for the web and a deployment bundler that created packages that were extracted and set up in a Linux or Windows environment (before I knew stuff like Docker existed).

With the launch of .NET Core I started working more seriously and fell in love with C#, with which I was already very familiar after learning Java many years prior.

And now I am here, spending more time reading documentation rather than actually writing code.