Programming

My journey into programming started when I was quite young. Around the time when John Egbert was given a name, I was given a passion. It started with Starcraft Brood War's map editor, I would spend days sculpting maps and setting up triggers and scripts to make them interactive. Of the maps I can remember, I created:

A gauntlet-esque dungeon crawler
Multiple single-player RPGs
A medieval RP (roleplay) map
A galaxy wars map (The map was split into 16 smaller maps, representing planets, players would fight over these planets using troops bought with money earned through resource-generating structures constructed on these planets)
Paint ball map
A two-player "The Incredibles" RPG (for me and my brother)
Dad tower defense (for my father)
Multiple other tower defenses
A run map (Move through mazes with timed exposions)
...

I also spent time in other games' map editors, particularly Stronghold and Command and Conquer.

At some point, I was told by a friend's father about a progam called "GameMaker" . GameMaker, as its name suggests is a tool for creating games, it organized all the different parts of a game, the images, sounds, objects, levels, and scripting. GameMaker had two of its own scripting languages, one was a graphical "drag and drop" scripting language, and the other a c-like dynamically-typed language. Using GameMaker, I started creating far more complex games than I could using just a map editor. It also eased me into using a proper programming language. Of those I can remember, I created:

An RTS with pre-rendered 3d models and really bad pathfinding
A 3D Mechwarrior clone
A multiplayer Tower Defense game>
A local multiplayer base construction game called Terath
A spaceship-building procedurally generated space exploration game
A wall-climbing platformer with beautiful art by my brother
A Kim Possible elevator fighting game
Multiple top-down exploration games
Multiple shooter platformers
A graphing tool
A Langton's ant simulation program
Minecraft-like terrain generator and renderer
...

The community of GameMaker developers was fantastic, I regularly played other peoples creations and scoured forums looking for help, ideas, and cool scripts.

During this time I was being tought about real languages like C++ and Java in school. At one point I created a Boggle clone in C-sharp which helped get me my first internship. I created a mod for a beta version of Minecraft which added new tools and world generation.

It wasn't until college that I started getting into large project software developement. Of those I can remember I created the following while in college:

This website
RTS game using C#
Chess AI
Android Pokemon-Go like game (before Pokemon-Go was thing)
Image to ascii art converter

After college I worked on the following personal projects:

Stopwatch To Calendar android app
notes.tarnasa.com
droopy fork
prettygoodmusicplayer fork
siggame/Cadre fork