Ironically, it wasn't until i started programming that i could begin to type properly. Going back about 6 years now, I was 9 (I believe, it could have been further back than that), and my younger brother was playing a game on the Playstation 2 (I think, though don't quote me, that it was the original Ratchet and Clank game... gives some idea as to how long ago, doesn't it...). He randomly ran into a light thing, and in it I saw a face. My dad then said, that it was probably the creator. He then gave me a story as to how one of his friends reverse engineered a game, and put his name on a wall, in graffiti. I remember thinking to myself, I want to know how to do that. So the next day, I went to the library, and got a book, "Beginning Programming for Dummies." It was very poorly wrote. So much, in fact, that I was tearing my hair out trying to grasp the concept of variables. It would have been significantly easier if I could find a compiler to work with and try out for myself, I can imagine, however that's not the point. I couldn't find a free one. So I finished that, after a while, and decided that RealBasic was perhaps the best language to learn. I got on the phone to my uncle, who is a freelance programmer, and he recommended learning C instead, as it is industry standard, and if you know how, you can do anything with it. So I purchased the book, "C for Dummies." Again, falling down in the department of variables, it wasn't the best wrote. However, I sort of understood this one a bit better. But I still couldn't find a blasted compiler, so I left off it for a few years. Then, I remember digging through my old stuff, about 2 years ago, because my mum had a go at me because my room was in a rather shitty state ^^. I found the same book, and went through, to read it again. By this time, I had learnt how to work Google properly, so I did a quick search for, "c compiler." I then installed one (I can't remember which), and quickly got the hang of it. Then I started to code larger and larger applications, eventually teaching myself Win32. At that point, I realised: I'm now a programmer. But I wasn't satisfied. I wanted to be more than this. I wanted to be elite. So here I am now. It was about the time I taught myself Win32 that I got so good at typing as well, and it only took me about 2 minutes to type this entire post.
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