My first shot at anything even close to programming started with Age of Empires III in Random Map Scripting of November 2005.   I didn’t try any other languages until around July 2006.   Since then, I’ve learned many more levels of programming and continue to do so.

        What do I use to program? No fancy programs here (you otherwise aren’t writing your own code and technically NOT programming!)… I only use Notepad2; it is basically the Notepad included on all Windows computer, with highlighting to make code easier to read.   Very nice when you are editting files with over 5000 lines of code :p Many thanks to Elpea and Matei for recommending it to me.

Currently I’m fluent in:

• Age of Empires III
  • Random Map Scripting (XS)
    • (XS) Random Map Scripting, 2005-2006
    • XS Trigger Injection, 2006
    • XS Knowledge Base Querying, January 2007
• General Programming
  • Java, July 2007
• Web Design
  • HTML, June 2006
  • CSS, August 2006
  • PHP, September 2006
  • mySQL, September 2006
  • XML, December 2006
  • Javascript, November 2007
  • Adobe Flash/ActionScript 3.0, January 2008

I look forward to learning more if I can… particularly:

• C++
• Game I Might Be Designing for :p

        Surprisingly, I’ve never taken any real computer classes or read any books.   Nothing impossible here.   Everything I’ve learned has been from the web.   If you wish to learn as well, I’ve listed some resources.   For example, I’ve kept a list of resources I used to learn Web Designing (PHP, mySQL…).