Hi~ I'm Valen Cheung, a freelance programmer.
I've started to learn programming since I was 12, when I read a Java programming book in my school library and programming became one of my hobbies. It is fair to say Java is my mother language XD. I don't like programming in IDEs like eclipse and MSVS because they're too bulky, because of this I extracted the C command line tool cl.exe and the required files. I'd rather keep things simple.
Then I got more interested in programming as I wrote more code, and I often got myself in reproducing/rewritten some nice programme into Java, like Game Of Life Simulator written in Swing, a styled text editor like notepad++ (it's fun that notepad++ was actually originated from a Java version). I learnt more about programming when I was implementing those ideas/projects. For example, learning batch and shell script for convenient init and compile and exec codes. C/C++ when I need to write some natives library. And the best language at all time, Python, just because of its simplicity.