I started with programming 3 years ago and first language I was introduced with was Visual Basic 6.I started playing with it by creating a few applications but I just felt programming windows applications wasn't for me..I wanted to create something more than a simple window applications, something called game.

So after googling "Game Development" I felt into depression..Neat thing about game development is that it's fun, downside is math..I mean I never liked geometric side of math, and it seems that's the most important in Game Development..So I just bought few books and started to learn it...

One year later
After grasping "process of how games are made", then I learned that in order to do, the best thing to start with is C++.It's a hell of language (no offense, but it's hard).So again, I bought few books and start learning it..My problem, back then, was I haven't learned the language correctly - after writing Hello World application, I jumped on learning DirectX, even tho many people would keep saying "Learn the language first!".Well it was boring to me as was writing window applications in Visual Basic..Then I was really stucked!There's no way I would get back on learning C++, but I couldn't continue learning DirectX, atleast not with C++...

Another year later
..And here I am.C# is dream come true..Its clean syntax and Microsoft very hard effort to put it into game development, as well as make it as easier as possible to go and create games, made me go and learn it.Of course at start, XNA has not been released yet, but there was a number of webcast (DigiPen) as well as other resource to start out (ie MDX).So I keep learning it, till XNA came out.From the day it came out, I just loved it (and I'm still)..That's where my journey begines..!

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