I've been coding since I was 9-10, having been exposed to the wonders of this world thanks to 2 people:

• Firstly, my cousin, Harsh, who showed me this email system that he made in ASP. To be honest, I didn't really care about how it worked. What really attracted me to it was the background (which was from The Matrix/green-code-falling-down). I then set out to learn HTML and CSS to be able to make a simple webpage like that!
• Secondly, the creator of a PBBG/web-based text-based MMO called Gangsterz2 (now known as Legacy) - Zorg. I don't recall how I ended up on that site (about 2 years after I set out to learn how to code) but it exposed me to the wonders of PHP and backend programming. It also spurred my interested in game development.

Extended History

Since then, I've been making things using PHP as trusty pen to write fun things! I love to learn by doing and started out with PHP by making a one-page game combat system, calling it Blades of Glory. However, my interest in Space soon took over and I decided to make a map-based space game called 7Revolutions! Some old-timers from Legacy would recall it. It went through numerous variations before I ultimately left it and moved on.

Over the course, I eventually ended up experimenting with Flash for a solid few years. I never jumped the boat to Actionscript 3 from Actionscript 2, finding the latter simplified things, and hey - if it's simple, why do it any other way? Turns out this was simply because I wasn't used to classes yet but more on that later!

Eventually I learned Java through high school, and I've picked up C++ in College and this is where I am.

I primarily find myself making websites, experiments (nowadays mainly through HTML5's Flash-killing Canvas), and so on. I love to experiment! The number of experiments/prototypes for different things (flash, php/MySQL, html5) I have on various laptops is limitless!

I love to code because simply put, with the ability to code, if you can think it, you can make it! Some other websites I've made: Rift (I'll have it up soon for the world to see), which was a web-based game with a major emphasis on storyline and single-player gameplay. I built a whole conversation/NPC and Quest system for this about 3 years ago, and it was my biggest challenge at the time! I had a good small team working with me, comprising of players from Legacy. Eventually I took it down as Zorg offered me and another team member co-developer positions on Legacy and another game he was contemplating at the time. This experience only lasted for an extremely short while (as a company took over his game since he was employed), but it was a huge learning experience!

Around the same time period, 2010-2012, I made a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style content creation system called Paper Fates. I never did anything further with it, but I used concepts I picked up from Rift's conversation system and it turned out to be a pretty cool, if not too user friendly, website!

Most recently, I built Nova Narratives and Flag The World. I built Flag World in about 24 hours (actual working hours) over two days. It was so much of fun! It's a fun little game although there's no points system as such. There's a lot of room for expansion but it's something I'd like to leave aside for now and maybe revisit down the line. I love working on stupid little things and it's just nice to have a finished, if not final, version! I believe that any software, be it web-based or otherwise, is never a 'finished product'. It can't be. There will always be some way to improve it, to make the experience so much more than it already is. I also have a similar reasoning for when I have an idea that's been done before, even if just once. I believe you should only execute a relatively common idea if you have a better way of doing it!
*looks at certain video game series*