I''ve just read every single message on this thread Well Im 16 atm and started coding on an at the time kickass 286 when I was 8, a sorta zork style-e text adventure game set in my not so humble house. Then I stopped for a bit and eased into windoze with vb when i was 11. Last year I started playing a mud, got to know the owner, and I set out to learn c on my own and now im part of the development team for the mud and that is pretty cool; writing separate modules and watching it all tie in and then watching all the peeps play and frantically search for loopholes Recently Ive been learning c++ and now Ive nearly completed a tile based engine for dx. I am looking forward to life after skool.