My first encounter with programming was modding, there was a game mod GTA SAMP which allowed to play it online.

At some point I wanted to create my own server so I started following all kind of tutorials, which was very convenient for me, because the game was really popular at the time so there were a lot of tutorials in my native language, while at that moment I haven’t really understood english.

Anyway, one year passed, I have became professional in copy-pasting, but never really tried to understand how the code works, it was more like change something randomly and see if it works. Of course I started identify patterns, I started to feel like I know what I am doing, but there was one thing I couldn’t understand and it was loops.

One day I tried to implement a system, well it was actually copying already existing one and customizing it. It was looping through multidimensional arrays (at that moment I wasn’t even aware such thing exists). So I don’t remember the details anymore, but I got stuck, to get further I had to understand how loops work, so I spent days trying to implement whatever I was implementing, until it clicked, at that moment I understood it, I finally understood how loops work and not only that, I also understood how arrays work now. It felt great, it felt like whole new world of possibilities opened for me, I felt like I can create anything right now, in fact I felt like a god.

I was 12 years old at that moment, but that story, it got stuck in my head, I always keep remembering it and I think it’s because that moment was the moment when I realized that nothing is impossible in this world.