“Hello World!”
What a dramatic sentence! One that every developer knows….

But that wasn’t my start. The story began when I was not even 6 years old (don’t remember when it was exactly, maybe I was 5, maybe 4, who cares?). That was a great time back there… You know, no enemys just friends. No school. Thinking back it was heaven. And I started playing with the gameboy of my older brother… No Nintendo DS back there, not even the gameboy color (Somebody remember it? It was a revolution!). And I played Super Mario and the old editions of pokemon and that kind of stuff. I couldn’t even read! But i played and it was lots of fun. In fact I learned reading with/because of Pokemon Gold and Silver. (Annoying calls from trainers and my dad always had to read it for me, because I couldn’t^^ Well that was the time when I learned to remember the words and everything so that I can understand what these little virtual people wanted from me all the time!)
Back then I knew deep from my heart…. I wanted to make these games myself!

Well thats how my dream started!

It took a few years (you know learning to read was just the beginning for something much larger^^), before I really started to programm. (It’s really difficult to get started without internet, programming lessons or even a book…). So when I first came in contact with that world I was already 12. Never forgot my dream so I started with BlitzBasic, a language created for programming games… and I failed! I failed so badly! Made all the beginner failures, but to my excuse: internet was limited (I hate ISDN!) and I only used the BlitzBasic help, which only was a collection of commands and a description what they do. So hacked together a few games (Pong and things like that) and because I’m not a designer (and without graphics games are a little bit difficult and unfunny) I kind of gave up in making games and programming…

But now I’m 19 years old and a professionell SAP-Developer! I’m not_me and that was my story ;)

PS: I come from bavaria, so my english may not be the best, but hopefully good enough to understand ;-)