- At age 12, I taught myself C programming using [1] (I had never programmed before, but wanted to make games), then proceeded to write a 12,000 line 3D OpenGL

- At age 12, I taught myself C programming using [1] (I had never programmed before, but wanted to make games), then proceeded to write a 12,000 line 3D OpenGL Game Engine from scratch, using the NeHe tutorials [2] as guides. It took me three years. The final program ran on Windows XP and 98, could import 3D models from Autodesk 3D Studio, and had a 3D asteroids style game demo. I used Milkshape [3] for 3D modelling, and Dev-C++ as my IDE [4]. - For an AI course at University, my partner and I developed a custom motion planning algorithm involving neural networks, RRTs [5] and POMDPs [6] in several thousand lines of Java. That was some of the craziest (and most fun) programming I've ever done. Our lecturer was Hanna Kurniawati [7], who is world famous (for some value of 'world') for her work on POMDPs, which was really cool. [1] http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html [2] http://nehe.gamedev.net/ http://nehe.gamedev.net/ [3] http://chumbalum.swissquake.ch/ http://chumbalum.swissquake.ch/ [4] http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapidly_exploring_random_tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapidly_exploring_random_tree [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partially_observable_Markov_decision_process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partially_observable_Markov_dec... [7] http://robotics.itee.uq.edu.au/~hannakur/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:welcome http://robotics.itee.uq.edu.au/~hannakur/dokuwiki/doku.php?i...